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Bangladesh National Culture and
Heritage
An Introductory Reader
Edited by
A F Salahuddin Ahmed
Bazlul Mobin Chowdhury
Bangladesh is the home of an old civilisation grown
through the ages by virtue of its distinctive geography and history.
Behind it lays a long history of cultural traits of waves of successive
settlers having been absorbed and assimilated by the local population.
The cultural elements brought by the settlers blended with those
of indigenous origin. Through this process, both the society and
its culture were enriched.
The predominant trend of the Bengali intellectual and cultural tradition
has been a harmonious co-existence of the people professing different
faiths and having differences in caste and creed. Because of the
diversity of culture and heritage of the people comprising Muslims,
Hindus, Buddhists, Christians and Tribals – orthodoxy, exclusiveness
and intolerance hardly ever swayed the minds of the people of the
land. A kind of spiritual humanism has evolved out of living together
for centuries.
The roots of the people of Bangladesh are deeply entrenched in their
age-old tradition and heritage. In the present age of globalisation
our younger generation should become aware of their rich and varied
cultural inheritance. This will provide them with a clean background
and endow them with a sense of pride on their national identity.
This book has been designed to offer its readers a comprehensive
picture of the history, society and culture of the area now comprising
Bangladesh. It deals with different aspects of life and presents
an overview of our history, culture and tradition by highlighting
political, social and economic changes through the ages. Care has
been taken to include the physical and anthropological geography
of the land, culture and religion of all segments of the people,
the impact of British rule on politics and society, various reform
movements and the growth of Bengali nationalism. Topics like agricultural
and industrial economy, rural culture, growth of Bangla language
and literature, painting, architecture, music and sculpture have
also received due place in its pages.
In brief, the book aims at presenting diverse aspects of life and
development of the nation till the emergence of Bangladesh.
Price: tk. 750.00
In Praise of Nirañjan
Islam, Theatre and Bangladesh
Syed Jamil Ahmed
This book is in praise of Nirañjan,
“He who is stainless”, by extension, of everything that
is pure and unblemished. Performers of Islamic genres in Bangladesh
sometimes offer their salutations to Nirañjan. Hence the
title of this book. By choosing to name it thus, the author is conscious
of taking a distinct ideological stand. Amidst the clamorous wrangling
of the politicians of Bangladesh, against the myopic vision of the
fundamentalists, against also those liberal intellectuals who shun
Islamic overtones for fear of being outdated, this book should speak
for those countless and nameless performers who have offered their
praise for Nirañjan in their performances. They have their
own answers to the questions related to Islam and theatre.
Contents: Introduction, Theatre and Islam, Indigenous Theatre in
the Islamic World, Islamic Performances in Bangladesh, Karbala Legend
Today the Case of Bisad Sindhu, Transcultural Mutations of A Thousand
and One Nights and Its Contemporary Relevance, Conclusion,
Appendix: The Thousand and One Nights.
Syed Jamil Ahmed
Syed Jamil Ahmed is a director and designer in Theatre and Associate
Professor at the Department of Theatre and Music, University of
Dhaka. Born in 1955, he graduated from the National School of Drama
(New Delhi, India) in 1978, earned his MA in Theatre from the University
of Warwick (Coventry, England) in 1989 and his Ph.D. from the University
of Dhaka (Bangladesh) in 1997. His reputation is well established
as a director with credits such as Chaka (Dhaka), Bisad Sindhu (Dhaka),
Ek Hazar Aur EK Thi Rate (Karachi) and also as a designer with credits
such as Achalayatan (Dhaka), Kittankhola (Dhaka), Keramat Mangal
(Dhaka), Good Woman of Setzuan (Calcutta). The distinction of his
work is in the sharp contemporary relevance he succeeds in providing
to ‘traditional’ material and his poetic the blending
of Euro-American theatre practice with elements drawn from the indigenous
theatre of Bangladesh in particular and Asian theatre in general.
The founding chair of his department, Jamil Ahmed has number of
research papers, and two books on indigenous theatre of Bangladesh
(Achinpakhi Infinity : Indigenous Theatre of Bangladesh, UPL and
Hajar Bachar : Bangladesher Natak O Natyakala, Shilpakala Academy).
He has travelled extensively in Aisa, Europe and North America,
where he has tought, given seminars and workshops.
B. Tk.: 995.00
Cover Design: Selim Ahmed
Development, Decentralization and Democracy
Exploring Social Capital and Politicization in the Bengal
Region
Robert Thörlind
This book explores the controversy in political
science over the civil society/social capital paradigm, which in
its main argument claims that ‘the more social capital a society
possesses, the better will a democratic goverment work’ (Putnam
1993). Post-marxist scholars, on the other hand, argue that we should
study how common people are involved in politics and in which ways
issues, ideas and interests are politicized- i.e. put in a societal
perspective by people who have come together about what should be
held in common, and how this should be done practically in a politically
created society.
The first part of the book explores the critical debate on civil
society and social capital from the present structural and post-marxist
perspectives. Thereafter, the performance of decentralized governments
in West Bengal and Bangladesh is examined, to find out whether any
variation in institutional and/or democratic performance, could
be explained by higher levels of social capital and a stronger civil
society, or if these variations rather follows from differences
in the politicization of civil society. This second part of the
book is based on studies of a few gram panchayats in West Bengal,
and the socio-economic effects following from CPI (M)’s choice
of political mobilization strategies and local actions. In Bangladesh,
Gonoshahajjo Sangstha (GSS), a quite radical NGO and its activities
for social mobilization and electoral participation in local level
union parishads have been used as comparison.
The last section of the book is an attempt by the author to take
the notion of civil society and social capital a step further by
testing the synergistic model of politicization. This model is developed
in order to better explain the connection between socio-economic
development and good democratic performance, something that scholars,
politicians and development practitioners have attempted to do for
years.
Robert Thörlind
Robert Thörlind studied Development Politics at Uppsala University
in Sweden. He has stayed in Bangladesh and India on numerous occasions
since 1995. In 1998-2000, he worked with The Swallows (a Swedish
NGO) in Dhaka. He has also been working with the Swedish Secretariat
of International Trade Union Development Cooperation (LO-TCO), and
is at present holding a position with the Swedish International
Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).
B. Tk.: 395.00
Cover Design: Selim Ahmed
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