| ID | 163822 |
| Title Proper | Utopias Eroded and Recalled: Intellectual Legacies of East Pakistan |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Kabir, Ananya Jahanara |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | The short-lived geopolitical entity, East Pakistan (1947–71), left a deep impact on its successor state, Bangladesh, through the networks of intellectual kinship it enabled for its young elites who subsequently became Bangladesh’s nation-builders. Drawing on memory studies and literary critical reading methods, I examine the testimonies of nine such elites interviewed by the ‘Bengali Intellectuals Oral History Project’ (BIOHP), alongside their writings published before and after the creation of Bangladesh. This first sustained account of East Pakistan’s intellectual legacy thus also illustrates how a post-colonial intellectual history may be extracted from oral histories as the private and inchoate domain of memory. |
| `In' analytical Note | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 41, No.4; Dec 2018: p.892-910 |
| Journal Source | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 2018-12 41, 4 |
| Key Words | East Pakistan ; Intellectual History ; Oral History ; Partition of India ; Bangladesh Liberation War ; Bangladeshi Muslim Identity ; Bangladeshi Textiles ; Bengali Intellectuals ; Post-Colonial Memory Studies |