A Campus in Context: East Pakistan’s “Mass Upsurge” at Local, Regional, and International Scales

This article considers student activism at Dhaka University in the 1960s as a case study for considering student politics at multiple scales: local, regional, and international. In addition to providing a historical narrative of Dhaka’s engagement in the Mass upsurge campaign that led to the end of...

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Main Author: Samantha Christiansen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud 2019-12-01
Series:South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/6491
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spelling doaj-art-e99ee75216ce43a18c922a27b01f50a92025-08-20T01:55:21ZengCentre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du SudSouth Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal1960-60602019-12-012210.4000/samaj.6491A Campus in Context: East Pakistan’s “Mass Upsurge” at Local, Regional, and International ScalesSamantha ChristiansenThis article considers student activism at Dhaka University in the 1960s as a case study for considering student politics at multiple scales: local, regional, and international. In addition to providing a historical narrative of Dhaka’s engagement in the Mass upsurge campaign that led to the end of the Ayub Kahn regime, it also considers the ways this movement was informed by a sense of student power that extended beyond national borders.https://journals.openedition.org/samaj/6491Pakistansocial movementsDhakastudentsGlobal Sixties
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A Campus in Context: East Pakistan’s “Mass Upsurge” at Local, Regional, and International Scales
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social movements
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students
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title A Campus in Context: East Pakistan’s “Mass Upsurge” at Local, Regional, and International Scales
title_full A Campus in Context: East Pakistan’s “Mass Upsurge” at Local, Regional, and International Scales
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title_short A Campus in Context: East Pakistan’s “Mass Upsurge” at Local, Regional, and International Scales
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social movements
Dhaka
students
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