The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Life and Nature at Risk

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The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) in the southeast of Bangladesh is unique and attractive to outsiders. It forms a bridge between South Asia and Southeast Asia. From the plains one is amazed to see the picturesque mountain landscapes. The hill indigenous people who are divided into 12 groups exhibit distinct and different cultures. These amazing, amusing, honest and always smiling people seem to be part of nature.

But this mountainous region and its original inhabitants have undergone enormous assault and sufferings due to ill-conceived development initiatives and human greed. Produced and published by the Society for Environment and Human Development (SEHD), The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Life and Nature at Risk presents information, analysis and photographic evidence about how the land, life and nature in the Chittagong Hill Tracts are at risk. Incidents throughout the past half-century have changed the CHT to such a great extent that it no longer remains in its original shape. It is man who has caused enormous damage to this beautiful region.

SEHD publishes this book also to enhance understanding about the CHT's unique legal and administrative system that has no parallel in other parts of Bangladesh; agony and anger of the hill people as they fail to establish their self-rule and control over local resources; hill women's vulnerability and sufferings; and dislocation, disruption and destruction of life and nature in the name of 'development'.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amena Mohsin

Amena Mohsin, professor, Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka. She specializes on nationalism, ethnicity of minority issues. She has published a book and numerous articles on these issues.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Meghna Guhathakurta

Meghna Guhathakurta, professor, Department of International Relations, University of Dhaka. She writes extensively on women's movements and issues. She has also published books on development in Bangladesh.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Raja Devasish Roy

Raja Devasish Roy is the Chakma Chief. A lawyer (Barrister) by profession he has researched on land-related issues of the CHT. He regularly contributes to newspapers, jounals and magazines on the CHT indigenous issues.

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Title
The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Life and Nature at Risk
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
9844940117
Length
vi+121p., Plates; 26cm.
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