Begum Khaleda Zia

Q. M. Jalal Khan

Description

This book is about Bangladesh’s first female prime minister, Begum Khaleda Zia, who served three terms in office and achieved enormous popularity. Her charisma inexorably emanates from her sense of dignity, integrity, uncompromising principles, and commitment to freedom, independence, and sovereignty of Bangladesh--a new and small country bordering the larger India, which is always up to its hegemonic designs.

Sujets

• Asian Studies
• Political Science
• South Asia
• Ershad
• Sheikh Hasina
• Resistance
• Gender
• Asian
• World
• Democracy
• Asia
• Khaleda Zia
• Ziaur Rahman
• Bangladesh

Informations

• Publié par: Academica Press
• Date de parution: 15 novembre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781680538953
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Begum Khaleda Zia: Portrait of a People s Leader of Bangladesh
Edited By:
Q. M. Jalal Khan
K. M. A. Malik
Begum Khaleda Zia: Portrait of a People s Leader of Bangladesh
Edited By:
Q.M. Jalal Khan, PhD (New York)
K. M. A. Malik, PhD (London)
Academica Press
Washington~London
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Khan, Q. M. Jalal (editor) | Malik, K. M. A (editor).
Title: Begum Khaleda Zia : portrait of a people s leader of Bangladesh / Q. M. Jalal Khan | K. M. A. Malik
Description: Washington : Academica Press, 2021. | Includes references.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020951639 | ISBN 9781680531046 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781680531053 (paperback) | ISBN 9781680538953 (ebook)
Copyright 2021 Q. M. Jalal Khan

Contents
Advance Praise for the Book
Begum Khaleda Zia: Portrait of a People s Leader of Bangladesh
Preface and Acknowledgement
(Luminous Khaleda)
Chapter 1
Begum Khaleda Zia: Her Battles for a Democratic and Prosperous Bangladesh
K M A Malik
Chapter 2
Begum Khaleda Zia: Her Patriotic Politics and Its Historical Context
Zoglul Husain
Chapter 3
Begum Khaleda Zia: A Tale of Courage, Patriotism, Betrayal and Tragedy
Mahmudur Rahman
Chapter 4
Begum Khaleda Zia: The Pragmatic and Patriotic Leader That She Is
Jasim Uddin Ahmad
Chapter 5
Begum Khaleda Zia: The Shining Light of Political, Economic, and Educational Reforms in Bangladesh
A N M Ehsanul Hoque Milan
Chapter 6
Begum Khaleda Zia: Her Eviction from Home and Imprisonment -- Hasina s Ugly Exposure of Zia-Phobia!
R Chowdhury
Chapter 7
Begum Khaleda Zia: Her State-Building Strategies and Policies
Syed Serajul Islam
Chapter 8
Begum Khaleda Zia: The Greatest Political Phenomenon of Bangladesh and the Hasina Regime s Smallest-Minded Semi-Release of Her from Long and Unjust Imprisonment
Q M Jalal Khan
Chapter 9
Begum Khaleda Zia-Her Life, Her Story by Mahfuz Ullah: My Speech at the Launch of the Book, November 18, 2018
Asif Nazrul (Translated by Ahmad U Shihab)
Chapter 10
Begum Khaleda Zia: A Beloved Icon of Patriotism, Fighter for Democracy, and Victim of Fascist Injustice
Nazma Mustafa
Chapter 11
Begum Khaleda Zia: Mother of Democracy, Bangladesh s Most Popular, Yet Most Tormented Political Leader
Mohammad Zainal Abedin
Chapter 12
Begum Khaleda Zia: Never One of the Two Begums in Bangladesh Politics
Abid Bahar
Chapter 13
Begum Khaleda Zia: Personal Recollections and Beyond
R Chowdhury
Chapter 14
Begum Khaleda Zia: Her Long Walk, In and Out of Bondage and Freedom, to Save the Nation-No End in Sight
Q M Jalal Khan
Appendix A
(Authentic Counter Narrative to the Disturbingly Distorting Hasina-Awami Story)
Appendix B
(Corruption and Awami BAKSAL Propaganda Development Under the Regime)
Appendix C
(More Corruption Under the Regime)
Appendix D
(The regime s failure to face the corona virus disease)
Appendix E
(There Is No Freedom of Speech Under the Regime)
Appendix F
(Conspiracies Behind the BDR Massacre)
Appendix G
(The Regime s Controversial ICT)
Appendix H
(New and reconstituted BNP under the leadership of the Zia family)
Authors Short Bios
Advance Praise for the Book
This book--a highly engaging collection of essays featuring the political life of Begum Khaleda Zia--fills a void in the political analysis of Bangladesh. The book rightly portrays her as a democrat at heart and political practice. If she wanted, she could have stayed in power, but she gave up power voluntarily, believing she would return to power in a fair election. Unfortunately, the political party that succeeded hers in power in late 2008 didn t hold a free and fair election ever since. Additionally, in a fascist fashion, it jailed her on trumped up charges and sham trials. The book thus rightly highlights the fact that Khaleda Zia has been immensely victimized under the current undemocratic regime. The contributors to the book are well-known for their writings on the politics and development issues of Bangladesh. They point out the former Prime Minister s achievements and sufferings objectively and credibly. I am pleased to see that the book is a depiction of her patriotism, popularity, sincerity, and struggle for democratic rule in the country. Begum Khaleda Zia s political contributions as featured in this volume will inspire generations of academics and politicians to study and fight for restoration of democracy in Bangladesh. - Dr Mohammad A Auwal, Professor of Communication Studies, California State University, Los Angeles.
The subject of this book, Begum Khaleda Zia, is truly a people s leader, incredible and exemplary. Both in and out of power, she proved it again and again since she entered politics following the assassination of her husband and highly popular President Ziaur Rahman in 1981. Both are/were extremely popular, legendary, and phenomenal, so much so that they are exampled by themselves in successfully leading the nation out of critical times with an admirable sense of mission and vision. No other leader of Bangladesh has so far been able to reach their sky-rocketing popularity, which they earned by virtue of their lasting achievements and legacy in all the fields of state building endeavor that great democratic leaders of a new third world country are expected to strive for. President Zia s and Begum Zia s patriotic and nationalist goals and ideals, their efforts to unify the nation and define the idea of Bangladesh nationhood, their selfless sacrifice for the cause of the nation, their sincere commitment to political, economic, and educational reforms, and their struggles in the face of endless odds and oppression made them an inspiring model and embodiment of noble and lofty aspirations of a whole new people of Bangladesh. This book is a worthy record of the challenges and accomplishments of the three-time former Prime Minister Begum Zia in particular, and the historic President-Prime Minister couple together in general. --- Dr M Saidul Islam, Associate Professor of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
A very welcome publication, which would breathe the essential elixir and vitality of a new life among the people of Bangladesh. It is going to be a fresh, cooling breeze blowing in the sultry, choking and suffocating political atmosphere in our beloved country. This book has been contributed to by authors well-known for their writings on the political chains and shackles of Bangladesh-a country which for the last twelve years has unbearably become Awami-ridden, corruption-ridden, police-ridden, partisan judiciary-ridden, looter-and-cheater-ridden, rape-and-yaba-and-murder-and-casino-and-enforceddisappearances-ridden, Hindutva-ridden, and Indian RAW-ridden. It has become a country that has completely gone down politically, institutionally, ethically, morally, and culturally. The authors describe, in fine authentic details, Begum Zia s democratically-enlightened and patriotically-imbued achievements in power and her sufferings, challenges and sacrifices, out of power, especially in the face of Hasina s authoritarian rule, as deadly and dangerous as it is. In her popularity, patriotism, and struggle for a democratic system that has gone completely missing in Bangladesh since 2009, a free Begum Zia, who is now in bondage at the age of seventy-five, is what the country mostly needs. Her track records demonstrate that she deserves to be portrayed the way the writers in this volume have attempted to do. In the context of the recent history of Bangladesh, especially the Awami autocratic rule and the state-sponsored totalitarian terror and tyranny it has put the country through, Khaleda Zia has become a noble icon of democratic and patriotic politics the legacy of which will last long. ---Dr Kanak Sarwar, New York-based journalist in exile
Begum Khaleda Zia: Portrait of a People s Leader of Bangladesh
This book is dedicated to:
All the Founding Fathers of Bangladesh as mentioned with respect and objective evaluative comment (that history will judge one s good deeds and bad) by Begum Khaleda Zia in her memorably unifying speech in the Parliament on 29 June 2013 ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aP7wuBCxRA ).
The memories of those whose legacies for Muslim empowerment in Colonial Bengal are still alive and well in modern Bangladesh.
Nawab Sir Khawaja Salimullah Bahadur, the fourth Nawab of Dhaka and one of the leading Muslim politicians during the British Raj, who was the most pioneering key figure in the political resurgence of the people of Muslim (East) Bengal, especially in the establishment of Dhaka University for their educational improvement and intellectual enlightenment (and who died an early death in Kolkata, allegedly conspiratorial, at the age of only less than forty-four in early 1915).
Sir Khawaja Nazimuddin, former Governor-General and Prime Minister of Pakistan and Chief Minister of East Bengal, who, along with the other members of Dhaka s noble and lofty Nawab family, was instrumental in effectively following through the hopes, dreams and promises of Nawab Sir Salimullah in terms of his/their historic and generous landed contributions in the field of education and culture in East Bengal (now Bangladesh) during the 1920s and onwards.
Sher-e-Bangla A K Fazlul Huq, a Bengali statesman and jurist who served as the first Prime Minister of undivided Bengal and later as the Home Minister of Pakistan, who also moved the famous Pakistan resolution in 1940, who was the first