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Chapter 22 - Transnational Linkages

from Part V - Independent Bangladesh

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2021

Willem van Schendel
Willem van Schendel
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Summary

Bangladesh’s elite had been decimated twice within a generation. In 1947 many upper-class, professional and entrepreneurial Hindus had left for India and they had been largely replaced by newcomers from West Pakistan. In 1971 these newcomers retreated to Pakistan amidst targeted killings of the delta’s professionals and intellectuals. As a result, independent Bangladesh started out with only a few people who had any experience in running state institutions or large enterprises. They needed all the help they could get.Suddenly they had to perform on the global stage. As a result, Bangladesh society rapidly developed new transnational links that would shape its future course. Especially influential were foreign aid and investment, mass migration and rapid advances in connectivity.

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Transnationalismforeign aidNGOinfrastructuremigrationdiasporalabourRohingyaconnectivity
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A History of Bangladesh , pp. 256 - 274
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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