Chapter 1: Introduction: Transformation, contestation and challenges in Bangladesh
Part1. Economic transformation Chapter 2: Policy actions, market responses and economic growth in Bangladesh; Chapter 3: Bangladesh in dual transition: Attendant challenges and the next steps; Chapter 4: Institutional challenges in Bangladesh’s economic transformation
Part2. Costs and challenges of development Chapter 5: Fifty years of development experience of Bangladesh: An employment and labour perspective; Chapter 6: Inequality and human development: The Bangladesh perspective; Chapter 7: Bangladesh between world system and green growth: Past trends, future trajectories
Part3. Social transitions Chapter 8: Fifty years of human development in Bangladesh: Achievements and challenges; Chapter 9: Contentious empowerment? Women, development and change in Bangladesh
Part4. Cultural contestations Chapter 10: Shahbagh, Shapla Chottor and Bangladesh’s meandering, contending mindscapes; Chapter 11: Building Bangladesh: Critical orientations in architecture; Chapter 12: The changing faces of culture: Notes from a time of crisis
Part5. State, society, politics Chapter 13: Evolution of state-society relations in Bangladesh over the last five decades: An analytical narrative; Chapter 14: Islamist politics in Bangladesh: The nature, scope, and the pathway; Chapter 15: State-making, violence, and political muscle: Bangladesh as a polycratic state
Part6. The coming challenge for Bangladesh Chapter 16: Democratising the ‘Middle-Income’ dream: The coming challenge for Bangladesh at 50; Index