Alienation of the Lands of Indigenous Peoples in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh

Shapan Adnan was educated at the Universities of Sussex and Cambridge, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford. He has taught at the Universities of Dhaka and Chittagong, and has served as the Director of Research of Research & Advisory Services. At present, Shapan Adnan teaches in the South Asian Studies Programme of the National University of Singapore. His research interests include political economy, peasant production and capitalist development, social organization and politics of the peasantry, interlinkages between the environment and development, critique of flood control programmes and the ‘development business’, as well as demographic issues related to fertility and migration.