"Intimation of Revolution: Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh studies the rise of Bengali nationalism in East Pakistan in the fifties and the sixties by showcasing the interactions between global politics and local social and economic developments. It argues that the revolution of 1969 and the national liberation struggle of 1971 were informed by the global sixties that transformed the political landscape of Pakistan and facilitated the birth of Bangladesh. Departing from the typical understanding of Bangladesh as a product of Indo-Pakistani diplomatic and military rivalry, this book narrates how Bengali nationalists resisted the processes of internal colonization by the Pakistani military-bureaucratic regime to fashion their own nation. It details how this process of resistance and nation-formation drew on contemporaneous decolonization movements in Asia, Africa and Latin America while also being shaped by the Cold War rivalries between the United Sates, the Soviet Union and China"--

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).

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.