The collapse of the weaving industry in eighteenth-century Bengal has been the subject of considerable controversy. While it has been held that the decline was caused by a stagnant system of production, historians have also argued that the problem was a symptom of colonialism, and lay in the fundamental conflict of interests between British investment in the Indian textile industry and the ‘home’ manufacturing groups. The present volume contributes ...
Human Rights in Bangladesh 2005 offers an annual assessment of the situation of human rights in relation to governance deriving from global and national determinants. The chapters indicate the range of human rights issues addressed in this volume.
