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Untranquil Recollections Rehman Sobhan

Untranquil Recollections By Rehman Sobhan

Untranquil Recollections by Rehman Sobhan

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A memoir of Rehman Sobhanan eminent Bangladeshi nationalist who continues to play an active role even in the current polity!

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Untranquil Recollections: The Years of Fulfilment by Rehman Sobhan

The book brings together Rehman Sobhans personal story situated within the historical events of Bangladesh, from its birth as East Pakistan to its evolution as an independent, democratic state.

UNTRANQUIL RECOLLECTIONS: The Years of Fulfilment is a memoir of Rehman Sobhan, a prominent economist and public intellectual who played an active role in the Bangladeshi national movement of the 1960s. It is a narration of events by the author who lived through extraordinary phases in the histories of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh and the impact they had on him. His story relates to the life and perspectives of an individual born into a family of relative privilege and educated at elite schools. Later on, his life moved on to a different trajectory from its intended path and he eventually came to beinvolved in the political struggles that culminated in the emergence of an independent Bangladesh.

Untranquil Recollections Reviews

A balanced yet rich description of the politics that led up to the genocide. A fine readcapturing in riveting detail the political, social and human drama of the birth of Bangladesh.

-- The Hindu, 28 February 2016

"A highly readable book which argues its case and its evolution as an independent Bangladesh forcefully."

-- Free press Journal, November 20, 2016

"This is the narration of Rehman Sobhans eventful life. He brings alive the evolution of lives of banagli people and its nationThis autobiography is a timely narrative that should be widely read on both sides of the border as a reminder of the agony and the elation that we went through together in those epochal times."

-- The Book Review, January 2017

"A balanced yet rich description of the politics that led up to the genocidecapturing in riveting detail the political, social and human drama of the birth of Bangladesh."

-- The Hindu

About Rehman Sobhan

Rehman Sobhan is a noted Bangladeshi economist and freedomfighter who played an active role in the Bangali national movement.He is currently the Chairman, Centre for Policy Dialogue, Dhaka,Bangladesh. He was educated at St. Pauls School, Darjeeling;Aitchison College, Lahore; and the University of Cambridge.He was one of the several economists whose ideas influencedthe 6-point programme of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, which becamethe basis for the struggle for self-rule for Bangladesh. A formerProfessor of Economics at Dhaka University, he has authorednumerous books and articles on various developmental issues.The most recent of these, Challenging the Injustice of Poverty:Agendas for Inclusive Development in South Asia, was publishedby SAGE in 2010. He served the first Government of Bangladesh as EnvoyExtraordinaire with special responsibility for Economic Affairs,during the Liberation War in 1971. He was a member of the firstBangladesh Planning Commission, and in the 1980s headed thepremier development research facility, BIDS. In 199091, hebecame a Member of the Advisory Council of the President ofBangladesh in charge of the Ministry of Planning and the EconomicRelations Division. In 1993, he founded and became the Chairmanof the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), one of Bangladeshs mostprestigious think tanks. He also headed the South Asia Centre forPolicy Studies (SACEPS) from 2000 to 2005, one of the leadingthink tanks for promoting regional cooperation in South Asia.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgements Families Inherited and Chosen Growing Up in Calcutta Darjeeling: School Days in the Shadows of Kanchenjunga Lahore: Coming of Age among the Chiefs London: Imagined Realities Cambridge: The Transformative Years Dhaka: Life and Times Dhaka: Adventures in the Private Sector Dhaka University: Teaching Economics and Learning to Be a Teacher Dhaka: Personal Encounters of the Close Kind Exposures to Political Activism at Dhaka University From Political Economy to Politician Economist Engagement with the National Struggle Fulfilment: Witness to the Birth of a Nation Fulfilment: From Politician Economist to Political Combatant in the Liberation War Fulfilment: Envoy Extraordinaire Fulfilment: The Liberation of Bangladesh Annexure Index

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GOR013740517
9789351509868
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Untranquil Recollections: The Years of Fulfilment by Rehman Sobhan
Rehman Sobhan
Used - Very Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
2016-12-01
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