Untranquil Recollections: From Dawn to Darkness – Political Economy of Nation Building in Post-Liberation Bangladesh
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Untranquil Recollections attempts to capture the unique problems of reconstructing the war-devastated economy while building institutions from the ground up for a nation which, for 24 years, had been run through a highly centralized system of colonial-style governance. Given the inherent difficulties of this endeavour, classifying Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's time of leadership as a 'failure' would be a misconception. His regime started out with high hopes, and Rehman Sobhan discusses why those hopes never came to fruition. The book gives special attention to the author's involvement, as a Member of the Planning Commission, in addressing the problem of reconstruction while coping with the political challenges. The direction of the national policy set by Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was fairly radical. The narrative attempts to identify the economic and political forces inimical to this and related efforts. The book concludes with the discussion of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's assassination along with his family and his closest political colleagues, which resulted in a change of regime.
Rehman Sobhan
Professor Rehman Sobhan, is the founder of the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD), a leading civil society think-tank in Bangladesh which he currently chairs. He is also the Executive Director of South Asia Centre for Policy Studies (SACEPS). He served as member of a number of important national and international bodies including Member of the Caretaker Government of Bangladesh and Bangladesh National Commission on Money, Banking and Finance. He was a member of UN Committee for Development Planing, Government Council of UN University, Tokyo, Board of United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva, Executive Committee of the International Economic Association, Group of Eminent Persons appointed by SAARC Heads of State to review the future of SAARC. He also served
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