Genesis of the Bangladesh: War of Independence

The book examines the factors leading to India’s partition, Pakistan’s creation, the Bangladesh War of Independence, and Pakistan’s breakup. It discusses the social, cultural, political, and economic challenges faced by Pakistan, including the rise of an elite-dominated bureaucracy and exclusion of East Pakistan from state affairs. The treatise also examines the two economies formula proposed by Bangali economists and the Six Points Programme, which laid the groundwork for Bangladesh’s independence. The author questions whether the breakup of Pakistan was inevitable, arguing that Pakistan’s failure to build democratic institutions that respected the cultural distinctiveness of the Bangalis and provided them with equal government benefits made it inevitable.