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Untranquil recollections : the years of fulfillment / Rehman Sobhan.
Lippincott Library HB126.B263 S63 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sobhan, Rehman, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sobhan, Rehman.
- Economists--Bangladesh--Biography.
- Economists.
- Political activists--Bangladesh--Biography.
- Political activists.
- Bangladesh--History.
- Bangladesh.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 444 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2016.
- Summary:
- 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 be involved in the political struggles that culminated in the emergence of an independent Bangladesh. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Families Inherited and Chosen 1
- 2 Growing Up in Calcutta 29
- 3 Darjeeling: School Days in the Shadows of Kanchenjunga 54
- 4 Lahore: Coming of Age among the Chiefs 79
- 5 London: Imagined Realities 104
- 6 Cambridge: The Transformative Years 115
- 7 Dhaka: Life and Times 158
- 8 Dhaka: Adventures in the Private Sector 181
- 9 Dhaka University: Teaching Economics and Learning to Be a Teacher 194
- 10 Dhaka: Personal Encounters of the Close Kind 215
- 11 Exposures to Political Activism at Dhaka University 232
- 12 From Political Economy to Politician Economist 250
- 13 Engagement with the National Struggle 276
- 14 Fulfilment: Witness to the Birth of a Nation 308
- 15 Fulfilment: From Politician Economist to Political Combatant in the Liberation War 344
- 16 Fulfilment: Envoy Extraordinaire 369
- 17 Fulfilment: The Liberation of Bangladesh 410.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789351503217
- 9351503216
- OCLC:
- 920680427
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