The Bangladesh Reader: History, Culture,
โ Meghna Guhathakurta and Willem van Schendel
๐ Library
๐
2013
๐ Duke University Press
๐ English
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The Bangladesh Reader: History, Culture, Politics
โ Scribed by Meghna Guhathakurta (editor); Willem van Schendel (editor)
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- Duke University Press
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- 2013
- Tongue
- English
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- 582
- Category
- Library
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Packed with images, first-person accounts, short stories, historical documents, speeches, treaties, essays, poems, and songs, this Reader is an unprecedented introduction to the historical, cultural, and political permutations that have created contemporary Bangladesh.
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