When the Earth Trembled is Professor Haider A. Khan's analytical account of the national liberation movement of Bangladesh and the struggle that reached its climax half a century ago. Khan, a social scientist, artist and internationalist, treats the movement not as a single tidy narrative but as a larger story woven from many voices and many versions of the same events.
Alongside the heroes and martyrs, the book makes room for moments of despair and cowardice, and it develops an original way of reading revolutionary mass movements as a kind of many-voiced prose poetry. While the internal contradictions of Bangladeshi society remain central to the analysis, the author also connects the liberation struggle to the global hopes of 1968, and keeps an eye on what these events mean for the future. Economist Jomo Kwame Sundaram and scholar Heikki Patomaki have both praised the work.
This 312-page hardcover, published in 2022, is a rewarding read for historians, political scientists and anyone who wants a fresh interpretation of 1971.
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