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The past decade has seen a marked policy focus upon Bangladesh, home to nearly 150 million Muslims; it has attracted the attention of the world due to weak governance and the rising tide of Islamist violence. This book provides a broad-ranging analysis of the growth and impact of \"political Islam\" in Bangladesh, and reactions to it. Grounded in empirical data, experts on Bangladesh examine the changing character of Bangladeshi politics since 1971, with a particular focus on the convergence of governance, Islamism and militancy. They examine the impacts of Islamist politics on education, popular culture and civil society, and the regional and extraregional connections of the Bangladeshi Islamist groups. Bringing together journalists and academics - all of whom have different professional and methodological backgrounds and field experiences which impact upon these issues from different vantage points - the book assesses Bangladesh’s own prospects for internal stability as well as its wider impact upon South Asian security. It argues that the political environment of Bangladesh, the appeal of Islamist ideology to the general masses and the dynamic adaptability of Islamist organizations all demonstrate that Bangladesh will continue to focus the attention of policy makers and analysts alike. This is a timely, incisive and original explanation of the rise of political Islam and Islamic militancy in Bangladesh. Introduction - Ali Riaz and C. Christine Fair 1. Political Culture in Contemporary Bangladesh: Histories, Ruptures and Contradictions - Dina Mahnaz Siddiqi 2. Political Violence in Bangladesh - Md. Shamsul Islam 3. Who are the Islamists? - Ali Riaz and Kh. Ali Ar-Raji 4. Who are the Militants? - Zayadul Ahsan and Pavitra Banavar 5. Bangladeshi Civil Society and Islamist Politics - Elora Shehabuddin 6. Islamist Politics and Education - Ali Riaz 7. Islamist Politics and Popular Culture - Ali Riaz and Muhammad Abu Naser 8. Regional and Extraregional Dimensions - Ali Riaz and Jessica Bastian Ali Riaz is Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics and Government, at Illinois State University. Previously, he worked as Broadcast Journalist at the BBC World Service in London. Recent publications include Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh: A Complex Web , also published by Routledge. C. Christine Fair is Assistant Professor in the Center for Peace and Security Studies (CPASS) in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, USA. She was previously senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. Her recent books include Fortifying Pakistan: The Role of U.S. Internal Security Assistance .

This document assesses the quality of financial accountability and transparency in Bangladesh, and makes recommendations for improvement. With respect to public funds, it compares the financial management standards, and practices of agencies using such funds against and international, or \" best practice \" standard, and also the standards, and practices of the external \" oversight \" agencies - nine Audit Directorates of the Comptroller and Auditor General ' s Office, parliamentary committees concerned with public expenditure, donor agencies, and the media. It assesses what it would take to qualify the country for programmatic, or sector lending in replacement of all individual project lending. With respect to private funds in the hands of companies, commercial banks, insurance companies, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), it examines the regulatory activities of the Registrar of Joint Stock Companies, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the two Stock Exchanges, Bangladesh Bank, NGO Affairs Bureau, and the accounting and auditing profession that serves both public, and private sectors.

The war of 1971 that created Bangladesh was the most significant geopolitical event in the Indian subcontinent since partition in 1947. It tilted the balance of power between India and Pakistan steeply in favor of India. Srinath Raghavan contends that the crisis and its cast of characters can be understood only in a wider international context.

Within few weeks of the creation of Pakistan in 1947, on 23rd February 1948 in the Constituent Assembly held in Karachi, Dhirendranath Dutta motioned an amendment proposal. In the amendment he proposed Bengali should also be made one of the state languages of Pakistan. Though the motion was simple yet the impact of that proposal was far reaching. Surely the Pakistan ruling clique did not accept his amendment. As a result the East Bengal’s Bengalees became vociferous to make Bengali as one of the state language of Pakistan. The Bengalee nationalist feeling became intense. The language movement of 1952 and the firing incident of 21st February on the students took place. And today 21st February is not only a day of the Bengali language, but has also become the International Mother Tongue Day all over the world. As he proposed Bengali to be a state language, the Pakistani rulers never forgave Dhirendranath Dutta. As a result during the liberation war of Bangladesh, on 29th March, 1971, Pakistani soldiers imprisoned eighty-five years old Dhirendranath Dutta and in April brutally killed him inside the Comilla Cantonment.

The war of 1971 that created Bangladesh was the most significant geopolitical event in the Indian subcontinent since partition in 1947. It tilted the balance of power between India and Pakistan steeply in favor of India. Srinath Raghavan contends that the crisis and its cast of characters can be understood only in a wider international context.

The crisis in East Pakistan in 1971, which preceded the birth of Bangladesh, led to ten million refugees crossing the border into India. This book argues that this massive influx of refugees within a few short months changed ideas about citizenship and belonging in South Asia. The book looks at how the Indian state, while generously keeping its borders open to the refugees, made it clear that these refugees were different from those generated by Partition, and would not be allowed to settle permanently. It discusses how the state was breaking its 'effective' link between refugees and citizenship, and how at the same time a second 'affective' border was developing between those living in the border areas, especially in Assam and West Bengal. Moving beyond the refugee narratives created by Partition, this book argues that these 'effective' and 'affective' borders generated by the refugee crisis in 1971 form part of the longer historical trajectory of the current political debate regarding 'illegal infiltration' from Bangladesh . It goes on to analyse the aftermath of the 1971 war and the massive repatriation project undertaken by the governments of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh to examine ways in which questions about minorities and belonging remained unresolved post-1971. The book is an interesting contribution to the history of refugees, border-making and 1971 in South Asia, as well as to studies in politics and international relations.

This IBM Redbooks publication describes how to install and configure the very latest IBM storage solution and concept, the IBM TotalStorage Network Attached Storage (NAS) Gateway 500, in heterogeneous environments.The IBM TotalStorage NAS Gateway 500 series is an innovative Network Attached Storage device that connects clients and servers on an IP network to Fibre Channel storage, efficiently bridging the gap between LAN storage needs and SAN storage capacities. The IBM TotalStorage NAS Gateway 500 is a storage solution for UNIX/AIX/Linux, Apple, and Microsoft Windows environments. In this book, we show how to integrate the IBM TotalStorage NAS Gateway 500 and explain how it can benefit your company’s business needs.This book is an easy-to-follow guide which describes the market segment that the IBM TotalStorage NAS Gateway 500 is aimed at, and explains NAS installation, ease-of-use, remote management, expansion capabilities, high availability (two node clustering and up to four node remote mirroring), and backup and recovery techniques. It also explains open systems storage concepts and methodologies for common data sharing for UNIX/AIX/Linux, Apple, and Microsoft Windows environments.Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.