Bengali Partition of 1905 is a milestone in Bengali History which had enormous impact on subsequent history. But very few books were published on this subject. Particularly no detailed study has been published on East Bengal or present Bangladesh which was the centre of events during this important period of history. Professor Muntassir Mamoon, the pioneer on history of East Bengal came forward to fill in this void. The book is divided into three parts. In the first part the author discuses the background of the Bengal partition.
This book gives names and faces to some of the world's poorest people, the inhabitants of a Bangladesh village. Although no microcosm can perfectly mirror the whole, an in depth exploration of one place can reveal the human dimensions of the larger picture. The authors lived at Katni, a typical Bangladesh village, in a hut they built themselves to find out what life at the margin in the Third World meant.
From One to Many: Scaling Up Health Programs in Low Income Countries addresses both problems and opportunities in scaling up health programs: It gives voice to the too often unheard program implementers and articulates their rarely found details and hard-won insights about the step-by-step negotiations that determine the success or failure of bringing programs to scale. At the same time it delivers the critical analysis and the breadth of perspective of academic writers who have studied scaling up efforts across the globe.
Quest for a Healthy Bangladesh provides an overview of the Bangladesh health and population situation and the current status of its health and family planning programme, with an emphasis on primary health care services. It reviews some of the major initiatives in health, population and nutrition which are emerging and considers how primary health care services can be strengthened in Bangladesh so that health for all can become a reality in Bangladesh sooner rather than later.
Romance and Pleasure portrays the social and cultural setting of urban Dhaka to understand sexual conduct and the factors that contribute to sexual health risks, including pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections, especially HIV, among unmarried, college-going young people. The book also presents the situation in a wider context, by examining gender-related values and societal norms on the nature of relationships among young people. Marriage is a central pillar in the social construction of sexuality in Bangladesh.
This book examines the existing healthcare delivery system in Bangladesh and its outcome. The theoretical section focuses primarily on the importance of preventive care for the population of the world and specifically for a poor country like Bangladesh.
The goal for Health for All by the Year 2000 was adopted by the Ministers of Health from countries around the world who gathered at the Alma Ata (now Almaty) Kazakhstan in 1978 at the International Conference on Primary Health Care. With the arrival of the year 2000, the hope of attaining the goal has vanished. However, reviewing and formulating strategies for ensuring that the goal of Health for Allis attained by all members of the human family as soon as possible is now as relevant as ever.
The First World War had wrought a revolution in people's ideas of equality and liberty everywhere. In India, the Home Rule agitation had heightened political awareness and ambition across the length and breadth of the country under the British Raj. The Rowlatt Bill (1919), based on the controversial recommendation of the Rowlatt Committee, was enacted to deal with acts of sedition on the lifting of the Defense of India Act after the war. This was the backdrop when Philip Finney joined the Bengal Police in 1924.
The quality of education and the prevalence of campus violence in Bangladesh, particularly in institutions of higher education, and their unavoidable interaction, are some of the major concerns in the country's educational sector. The Ministry of Education of the Government of Bangladesh, in conjunction with the University Grants Commission and the Dhaka University, commissioned the Foundation for Research on Educational Planning and Development to undertake a study on the state of higher education vis-a-vis the deleterious effects of campus violence.
Literacy is a necessary though not sufficient for economic development. As Bangladesh strives to raise the living standards of its population, the present accepted high level of literacy restricts the country’s potential for development in the areas of economic growth, education and the quality of life of its citizens. It is well nigh impossible to state with any degree of confidence what the illiteracy rate is as definitions of illiteracy have changed over recent decades and the existing measures lack validity. The present study expands on traditional concepts of literacy.