Ethnicity and National Integration in Bangladesh: A Study of the Chittagong Hill Tracts by B. P. Barua

A study of ethnicity and the problem of national integration in Bangladesh, using the Chittagong Hill Tracts as the central case. Benu Prasad Barua, a political scientist at the University of Chittagong, combines published sources with field research conducted in 1985–88, including interviews with 330 respondents across the hill districts.

What the book covers

• The roots of the crisis in the CHT and the challenge posed by assertive ethnic minorities to a unitary state
• Social structure, the traditional institutions of chief, headman and karbari, and the political system of the CHT
• Land use, education, and the changing tribal and non-tribal population, with maps, figures and tables
• The organisation of the PCJSS and Shanti Bahini, and whether the conflict can be resolved through dialogue and constitutional design

Of interest to readers in political science, history, sociology and anthropology.