Pakistan and Bangladesh: A Dream Sundered

Roger D. Norton ()
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Roger D. Norton: Texas A&M University

Chapter Chapter 5 in Structural Inequality, 2022, pp 133-167 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the twilight of Britain’s South Asian empire, Muhammad Allama Iqbal advocated the creation of a Moslem homeland encompassing territories east and west of the newly emerging India, to unite by religion ethnically different peoples. Tensions grew over sharing of economic benefits of the two wings of this Pakistan, threatening to sunder the country. The challenge was to analyze that issue and identify the mechanisms by which resources were shared, as an input into a dialogue about holding the country together. Published sources did not have information on interviewing transfers. Interviews were undertaken to seek both data and leads for subsequent conversations.

Keywords: Creation of Pakistan; Indus River civilization; Alexander the Great; Islamic Empire of Moguls; Shah Jehan; Plassey; Muhammad Allama Iqbal; Communal violence; Economic resource transfers; Regional fiscal expenditure; Foreign exchange allocation; Swat valley; Feudal economy; Dhaka; Ganges River; Brahmaputra River; Urban poverty; Flood farming; Regional bank activity; Foreign exchange permits; Regional structural inequality; Rural and urban banking; Shared economic growth; Ganges River; Monsoon floods; River steamboat; Sundarbans; Bengal tiger; Rabindranath Tagore; Jessore; Monsoon season; Bangladeshi War of Independence; Sundarbans Reserved Forest; Sundarban tigers; Bangladesh economic growth; Governance; Corruption; Bangladesh floods; Grameen Bank; BRAC; Group lending; Poverty alleviation; Human development; Social indicators; Rural poverty alleviation; Human development; Index; Income shares; Childhood malnutrition; Quality of living; Garment industry; Pahela Baishakh; Rising sea; Climate change; Bay of Bengal storms; Community; Adaptation; ICCCAD; Mangroves; Sea walls; Governance; Institutional weakness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-08633-5_5

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