Political History and the Socio-Economic-Cultural- Transnational Innovation in Bangladesh

Authors

  • Ananda Majumdar University of Alberta

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18034/ra.v7i3.270

Keywords:

Bengali vs. Bangladeshi Nationalism, Cultural-Linguistic Identity, Feed for the Future, Digital Bangladesh, Two-Nation Theory, Fourth Industrial Revolution

Abstract

Riverine country in South Asia Bangladesh has seen various incidents from the British Bengal to East Pakistan and after being an independent country in Bangladesh. Its social, economic, cultural changes affected its people from the beginning, people of East Bengal were an innocent, poor peasants Muslim Bengali majority. Because of its economic and educational disadvantage, the British have exploited through land reforms, feudal system. It was similar exploitation from West Pakistan. People of East Pakistan finally started a revolution for freedom from the exploiters and through a bloody war in 1971, East Pakistan became an independent country. Bangladesh after independence has seen poverty, unemployment, social classifications, communalism between majority Muslims and minority Hindus, it has seen a civilian and military government with  impractical policies, which provided nothing but tensions and grief. However, Bangladesh finally manages its status in the world as a future economic power by the establishment of democracy, by the implementation of various policies, such as a vision of a developed country by 2030. Its academic exchanges through various institutions like the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS) at the University of Wisconsin helps its acceptability worldwide and recognizes its linguistic features, such as literature of Tagore and Kaji Nazrul Islam. It is an ethnographic article, which will send a message to the rest of the about Bangladesh, its social, economic, political structure, people, and its ambition to be an economic powerhouse in the 21st century, it is a message from a Bengali nation who established Bengali language as an international language to the UN. This article has completed through the reading of various books, academic articles and journals, and the research will be continuing through discussions, publications and collaboration with academic institutes.

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Author Biography

  • Ananda Majumdar, University of Alberta

    Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, Canada

     

    University of Alberta (Bachelor of Education after Degree Elementary, Faculty of Education). Harvard Graduate School of Education (Professional Education as a Child Development Educator, online). Athabasca University (Online Education on Open Studies, Interdisciplinary focused on Social Science, Humanities, Global Studies, Human Service). Grant MacEwan University (Diploma in HR Management). Jadavpur University (Master of Arts in International Relations). Sikkim Manipal University (Master of Business Administration in HR and Marketing Management). MBB College, Tripura University (Bachelor of Arts in Political Science). Antarctic Institute of Canada (Researcher and Writer), Servicing Community Internship Program (SCiP) Funded by Government of Alberta.

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Published

28-12-2019

How to Cite

Majumdar, A. (2019). Political History and the Socio-Economic-Cultural- Transnational Innovation in Bangladesh. ABC Research Alert, 7(3), Canada. https://doi.org/10.18034/ra.v7i3.270