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This chapter examines the impact of selected domestic events on Indo—Bangladesh relations during Hussain Muhammad Ershad’s regime, as part of the overall evaluation of the domestic and external determinants of Bangladesh’s foreign relations. Aspects of three issues have been selected as appropriate examples for analysis: Ershad’s assumption of power; the Farakka Barrage dispute; and the hill-people insurgency occurring in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of southeast Bangladesh. The chapter does not aim to explore these issues comprehensively. The intention is to use specific examples to illustrate the way in which each issue has been shaped, in part, by Bangladesh’s domestic arena.
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- Indian Government
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Refugee Problem
- Eastern Economic Review
- Chittagong Hill Tract
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Editorial, Times of India (New Delhi), 25 March 1982.
L. Ziring, Bangladesh: From Mujib to Ershad, An Interpretive Study, Oxford, 1992, p. 140.
While there is still some controversy over the subject, the official explanation was that a disgruntled Freedom Fighter officer, Muhammad Abul Manzur, along with a small group of supporting officers, carried out the assassination. See A. Mascarenhas, A Legacy of Blood, London, 1986, pp. 160–83.
S. Hassan, ‘Transitional Politics In Bangladesh: A Study of Sattar’s Interim Presidency’, India Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 3, 1983, p. 264.
This issue had intensified due to Zia’s civilianising policies. See Z.R. Khan, ‘Bangladesh in 1981: Change, Stability, and Leadership’, Asian Survey, vol. 22, no. 2, 1982, p. 165.
The fragility of Sattar’s position is revealed, for example, in the comment by Marcus Franda that Zia’s death had occurred ‘at a point when things had started to go sour but had not yet deteriorated’. M. Franda, Bangladesh: The First Decade, New Delhi, 1982, p. 324.
M.A. Rahman, ‘Bangladesh in 1983: A Turning Point for the Military’, Asian Survey, vol. 24, no. 2, 1984, p. 151.
See S.D. Muni, Pangs of Proximity: India and Sri Lanka’s Ethnic Crisis, New Delhi, 1993, p. 28.
B. Crow et al., Sharing the Ganges: The Politics and Technology of River Development, New Delhi, 1995.
B.G. Verghese, Waters of Hope: Integrated Water Resource Development and Regional Cooperation within the Himalayan-Ganga-Brahmaputra-Barak Basin, New Delhi, 1990, pp. 374–5.
For examples, see The Bangladesh Observer (Dhaka), 18 April 1988 (Bangladesh viewpoint); and. K.P. Khanal, ‘Impact of Domestic Conflicts on Regional Cooperation in South Asia’, in B. Sen Gupta, Regional Cooperation and Development in South Asia, Vol. 2, New Delhi, 1986 p. 195 (Indian viewpoint).
Useful sources dealing with the Chittagong Hill Tract tribal insurgency include S.M. Ali, The Fearful State: Power, People and Internal War in South Asia, London, 1993, pp. 162–203
M. Rahman Shelley (ed.), The Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh: The Untold Story, Dhaka, 1992
U. Phadnis et al. (eds), Domestic Conflicts in South Asia, Vol. 1: Political Dimensions, New Delhi, 1986, pp. 55–83
W. Van Schendel, ‘The Invention of the “Jummas”: State Formation and Ethnicity in Southeastern Bangladesh’, Modern Asian Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, 1992, pp. 95–128; Far Eastern Economic Review, ‘Intractable hills: autonomy plan fails to appease the rebels’, 5 April 1990, pp. 22–4
and S.S. Ahsan and B. Chakma, ‘Problems of National Integration in Bangladesh: The Chittagong Hill Tracts’, Asian Survey, vol. XXIX, no. 10, October 1989, pp. 959–70.
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Jacques, K. (2000). 1982–90: Political Manoeuvres and Ethnic Violence. In: Bangladesh, India and Pakistan. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780333982488_6
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