Azizul Rasel

With the much vaunted and long awaited talks between the President and Mujib still in progress, it is no time to speculate about their likely outcome.

After the creation of Pakistan, the nascent state embarked on vigorous projects to industrialise both parts of the country.

When writing a confidential report on the Bengali workers of Karnaphuli Paper Mills to the Superintendent of Police, D.I.B Rangamati, Sub-Inspector of Police Md. Nurul Islam noted with disgust and frustration:

Historian Willem van Schendel divides the historiography of the War of 1971 into two broad categories: i) first-generation historiographies and ii) second-generation historiographies.

Benjamin Kingsbury’s An Imperial Disaster: The Bengal Cyclone of 1876 (Hurst & Company, London, 2018) is a stimulating intervention in the history of disaster in British India.