Context, image and the case of the Shahbag movement

De, Sanchari

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“…This started a period of intense cultural debate and conflict in the country. In February 2013 at least 100,000 progressives gathered at Shahbag in Dhaka because of fear that the government was too lenient towards the war criminals (De 2015). In May the same year the Islamist organisation Hefazat-e Islam mobilised several hundred thousand in what was widely seen as a counter-demonstration at Shapla Square in Dhaka to press for more Islamist policies, including laws against blasphemy and non-Islamic practices (Bouissou 2013).…”

Section: Constitutional Tweaking and Building A Coalitionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in South Asia

Widmalm¹

2021

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The essays of this handbook dissect the trends towards creeping authoritarianism in South Asia. Even India, long a poster boy of "third world" democracy, appears to be catching up with its neighbours in a "non-democratic regime convergence". However, instead of merely confirming Huntington's deterministic pessimism regarding non-western democracy, or jumping on to wide-eyed bushy-tailed advocacy, authors of this important volume follow a third trajectory, based on fine-grained empirical analysis and empathy with their subject, within a comparative framework. This handbook should become an indispensable tool for the people of South Asia, as well as for outsiders looking in.'

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Section: Constitutional Tweaking and Building A Coalitionmentioning

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Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in South Asia

Widmalm¹

2021

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“…The Shahbag Movement began moments after the ICT sentenced a Jamaat leader (Abdul Kader Molla) to life imprisonment instead of death (Raqib, 2020). Soon after the protests, his punishment was revised to a death sentence (De, 2015). The Shahbag Movement successfully created a nationwide-anti-Jamaat campaign which further diminished Jamaat’s political standing.…”

Section: Bji: Challenges Responses and Implicationsmentioning

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Political Islam in South Asia: A critical appraisal of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami

Islam

2021

International Area Studies Review

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The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (BJI) is the largest Islamist Party in Bangladesh. It was founded in 1941 in British-India, by Maulana Mawdudi, a prominent South Asian Islamist leader. The BJI has undergone political vicissitudes during its eight-decade-long political history. The most notable political success of the Party was to have a couple of cabinet positions as a coalition partner in the Nationalist–Islamist Government between 2001 and 2006. Since the beginning of the 2010s, the Party has been in severe crisis: most of its national leaders were convicted of war crimes and put to death in the period 2011–2016. This article aims to examine the BJI’s growth and development and role in political Islam in Bangladesh. It also explores the challenges to, and responses of, the Party and their sociopolitical implications for the future of political Islam in Bangladesh. The methodology of the article is a critical analysis based on an exhaustive review of published secondary literature about the Party. The author argues that the BJI has generated a massive Islamic movement and made an enormous contribution to political Islam in Bangladesh. Yet it has failed to reform its almost-century-old organizational structure and modus operandi and effectively respond to the changed social and political contexts of Bangladesh, which has affected its organizational mobility and success.

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“…The movement was sparked by a court verdict that Abdul Quader Mollah, a senior leader of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, would receive only a life sentence for crimes committed during Bangladesh's Liberation. After the conviction, Mollah showed the 'V' (victory) sign to supporters, prompting widespread anger and a sense of injustice (De 2015). In response, thousands -and later hundreds of thousands -of people congregated, held candle vigils, and called for the government to reconsider the verdict, demanding the death penalty, and that JIB be banned.…”

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Students, movements, and the threat to authoritarianism in Bangladesh

Jackman

2020

Contemporary South Asia

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Decades of violent yet competitive party politics in Bangladesh have been usurped by authoritarian consolidation under the ruling Awami League. Both mainstream 'civil society' and political opposition have been largely suppressed, left unable to wage the protests typical of the county's politics. It is then striking that recent years have nonetheless seen significant urban unrest in the form of student led movements, coalescing around issues of injustice. Such social movements are neglected in the study of authoritarian durability, yet appear in practice to pose a serious threat to the ruling party. To understand this threat, this article examines two cases from 2018: the movements for reform to civil service quotas, and improved road safety.It argues such movements must be read in light of Bangladesh's history, where students have played a major role in confronting authoritarian rule. In particular, they pose two threats: first, they have the potential to undermine the ruling party's legitimacy and create a moment of crisis on which the opposition could capitalise; second, they can exacerbate tensions between interest groups on whom the ruling party rely to maintain power. Responding to such threats is thus crucial for the ruling party to maintain their grip on power.

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Context, image and the case of the Shahbag movement

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Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in South Asia

Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in South Asia

Political Islam in South Asia: A critical appraisal of the Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami

Students, movements, and the threat to authoritarianism in Bangladesh

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