A history of Bangladesh

A land of water and silt

Jungle, fields, cities and states

A region of multiple frontiers

The delta as a crossroads

From the Mughal empire to the British empire

The British impact

A closing agrarian frontier

Colonial conflicts

Towards partition

Partition

The Pakistan experiment

Pakistan falls apart

East Pakistani livelihoods

The roots of aid dependence

A new elite and cultural renewal

Armed conflict

A state is born

Imagining a new society

Creating a political system

Transnational linkages

Bursting at the seams

A national culture?

Conclusion.