Intimation of Revolution

Subho Basu is Associate Professor in History and Classical Studies at McGill University, Canada. His research and teaching interests are South Asian History, History of Bangladesh and Pakistan, Subaltern and Decolonial Studies, International Development Studies, and Democracy and Society in India. He is the author of Does Class Matter: Colonial Capital and Workers' Resistance in Bengal, 1890-1937 (2004). He has co-authored, with Ali Riaz, Paradise Lost? : State Failure in Nepal (2007) and co-edited, with Crispin Bates, Rethinking Indian Political Institutions (2005).

'The failure of economic and social justice after the founding of Pakistan in 1947 became the motivating ground for imagining a new and radical hope of an exploitation-free society in the sixties in East Pakistan. Subho Basu documents the processes and politics of the global sixties that transformed East Pakistan into Bangladesh. The sixties has not been adequately studied to understand how South Asian countries became capitalist economies. This important and evocative book fills that gap and opens the space for new explorations.' Yasmin Saikia, Arizona State University

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Nationality Question: Territoriality, Birth of East Pakistan and New Politics of Resistance; 2. Global Politics and Local Alignment: Cold War Bureaucratic -Military Alliance and Popular Resistance; 3. Language, Culture and the Global Sixties in East Pakistan; 4. Praetorian Guards, Capitalist Modernization and Early Global Sixties: Global Cold War Empire and the Colonization of East Pakistan; 5. For Whom the Bell Tolls: Popular Resistance and the Beginning of Global Sixties in Pakistan; 6. Global Sixties and the Coming of Revolution; Conclusion; Bibliography.