Global Sixties in Bangladesh: Praetorian Guards and Subaltern Resistance
Like bunches of blood-red Oleander, Like flaming clouds at sunset Asad’s shirt flutters In the gusty wind, in the limitless blue.
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Like bunches of blood-red Oleander, Like flaming clouds at sunset Asad’s shirt flutters In the gusty wind, in the limitless blue.
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 Janua...