POLI 322 Lecture Notes - Bangladesh Awami League, Bengali Nationalism, Universal Suffrage
14 Mar 2014
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Limits placed on poli competition until late 60s when opposition became strong and forced regime to allow poli scene. Basic democ: 1000 voters each were supposed to elect non party representatives. Ppl handpicked by the govt strentghen relation btw govt and influential ppl (land lords, industrialists) Beureaucrats and military leaders give themselves benefits: land. Conditions were made easy for export oriented industry. Us advisors called paki growth a miracle to be reproduced in other countries. Conservative interpretation of islam wasn"t given a lot of space. Social modernist were stronger in leadership of military and bureaucracy and able to influence the way religion matter in public life. Symbolic. constitution said that pm and governoe general had to be muslims. So this combination of modernist islam and export oriented growth made govt popular among middle classes and upper classes. Situation changed after mid 60s econ growth declined. Govt was less in a position to keep injecting resources in industry.
