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Bengalis in Pakistan’s Power Structure, Pre- and Post-1971
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Syed Badrul Ahsan
Remembering history is of critical importance. And here in Bangladesh, history has always been fascinating for its people and especially for those interested in researching the past. In this fiftieth year of the country’s emergence into freedom from Pakistan, it is therefore consequential that we not only focus on the individuals and the factors - economic, social and political - which were instrumental in our eventually armed struggle for freedom, but also travel back to studies of those Bengalis who in the pre- and post-1971 years served in influential as also insignificant positions in the Pakistani power structure.