The Time of Decolonization: A Social‐Theoretic Reconsideration of Bangladesh's “Pre‐History”
In the telos of Bangladesh's official national biography, the country's independence from Pakistan in 1971 overshadows the end of British colonial rule in 1947. Collective amnesia regarding this juncture of decolonization persist in political life, even as effusive references to this past structure the ideological...