Civil Society State Democratic Futures in Bangladesh

Nothing changes without imagination and critical thinking — and that, Imtiaz Ahmed argues, is why the idea of ‘democratic futures’ matters. There is no single kind of future and no single kind of democracy, just as there is no single form of state or civil society. ‘Civil Society State Democratic Futures in Bangladesh’ reads the present through a long past: three civilisational quests — classical Indian, Islamic and Western — in which civil society expanded and contracted with the character of the state, whether Asokan, Mughal, British or post-colonial. This history, the author suggests, is why civil society in Bangladesh still carries the power of orality. Published by Prothoma Prokashon.