عنوان

Thoughts of Becoming:

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TLpq2454399311

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Thoughts of Becoming:

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Kabir, Humayun

Title Proper by Another Author

Negotiating Modernity and Identity in Bangladesh

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Mehta, Uday

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

City University of New York

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2020

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

339

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Body granting the degree

City University of New York

Text preceding or following the note

2020

Text of Note

This dissertation constructs a history and conducts an analysis of Bangladeshi political thought with the aim to better understand the thought-world and political subjectivities in Bangladesh. The dissertation argues that political thought in Bangladesh has been profoundly structured by colonial and other encounters with modernity and by concerns about constructing a national identity. Negotiations between the incomplete and continuous projects of modernization and identity formation have produced certain anxieties about becoming that permeates political consciousness and ideas in the country. Though such anxieties of becoming are also shared by other postcolonial countries, the specific, though not necessarily exclusive, character of Bangladeshi thought emerges out of the country's particular political history and the double birth of the nation - first as Pakistan, then as Bangladesh. The dissertation seeks to establish this specific character of Bangladeshi political thought and political subjectivity through investigations into the political and intellectual histories of erstwhile East Pakistan and present day Bangladesh, engaging closely with the political lives and thoughts of four select thinkers and political actors - Abul Mansur Ahmad, Abul Hashim, Maolana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

History

Political science

South Asian studies

Kabir, Humayun

Mehta, Uday

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[Thesis]

276903

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