Deepa Sen, leading the procession by Dhaka University students after Asad was killed on January 25, 1969.
This article considers student activism at Dhaka University in the 1960s as a case study for considering student politics at multiple scales: local, regional, and international. In addition to providing a historical narrative of Dhaka s engagement in the Mass upsurge campaign that led to the end of the Ayub Kahn regime, it also considers the ways this movement was informed by a sense of student power that extended beyond national borders.
Amanullah Asaduzzaman,
(10 June 1942 – 20 January 1969)
In 1968, of course, students were causing headaches for government leaders far beyond Pakistan s national borders and regional scale. While newspapers were under strict censorship and were limited in their ability to run stories about the activities of anti-government activity in Pakistan, they were free to report on the activities of students elsewhere, and they did so in high volu