This project examines student protest activity in East Pakistan (present day Bangladesh) in the period of 1956-1971. Using archival evidence and interviews, the project analyzes the students within the context of the global youth phenomenon of student revolt the 1960s to explore ways in which students crafted an international subjectivity as well as an emergent nationalist identification.

Community Memories: Oral Histories of
Post-Partition South Asia

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