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100 1 _aSobhan, Rehman,
_eauthor.
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245 1 0 _aUntranquil recollections :
_bnation building in post-liberation Bangladesh /
_cRehman Sobhan.
260 _aThousand Oaks ;
_aLondon :
_bSage Publications,
_c2021.
300 _axviii, 348 pages ;
_c21 cm.
500 _aIncludes index.
505 _aContents: Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Untranquil Recollections First Days in Liberated Bangladesh My First Exposure to Government The Political Leadership of the Planning Commission The Workings of the Planning Commission Discovering the Political Economy of Policymaking The Challenge of Delivering in the Five-year Plan Making the State Effective The Challenge of Improving the Performance of the Nationalized Sector My Return to Aid Diplomacy Laying the Foundations of Indo-Bangladesh Economic Relations The Gathering Storm Darkness at Noon: The Last Days of the Bangabandhu Era Recollections in Tranquility
520 _a"Rehman Sobhan was directly associated with Bangladesh's liberation struggle. In this memoir, he provides an insightful, first-hand account of the challenges faced by the newly independent Bangladesh in the early years of its existence. This book attempts to capture the unique problems of reconstructing the war-devastated economy while building institutions from ground up for a nation which for 24 years had been run through a highly centralized system of colonial-style governance. Untranquil Recollections 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 associated with building institutions, formulating economic policies and overseeing their implementation. The narrative attempts to identify the economic and political forces that were inimical to the radical direction of the national policy set by Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The book concludes with a discussion of the dark events leading to Mujibur Rahman's assassination along with his family and his closest political colleagues, which resulted in a change in the regime"--
600 _aSobhan, Rehman
_xAnecdotes.
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651 _aBangladesh
_xHistory
_y20th century.
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651 _aBangladesh
_xPolitics and government.
651 _aBangladesh.
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