The article by Dr. Taj I. Hashmi,
“Culture, Governance and Underdevelopment”, is an eye opener about the current
condition of Bangladesh. Dr. Hashmi
opens up the history and background of Bangladesh and it relative areas around
in South Asia and explains why the area lacks good governance.
Dr. Hashmi has been an observer of Bangladesh’s cultural impact on its governance and underdevelopment as he grew up in country at his early age. Dr. Taj Hashmi is a professor of security studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. He worked as professor of Islamic and Asian history, politics and culture, at various universities, including the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University in Canada; Dhaka University and Independent University in Bangladesh. His teaching and research interests include: Political Islam, Islamic Resurgence and Militancy, Ethnicity, Regionalism and Security in the Asia-Pacific; Civil-Military Relations, Religion, Identity, Democracy and Civil Society in South Asia; Culture, Governance and
Underdevelopment in the Asia-Pacific; Popular Nationalism, Insurgency and Civil War in Post-Colonial South Asia. All these sums up Dr. Hashmi’s qualification to writing such a piece that talks about Bangladesh’s chaotic stage that it has been going through for years. The article itself was published in the book: Bangladesh: On the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century, and it contributes significantly to the revaluation of the country's past. It also shows how the future of the country strictly depends on making some drastic change or else the country will lapse into an an archival society.
Dr. Hashmi has been an observer of Bangladesh’s cultural impact on its governance and underdevelopment as he grew up in country at his early age. Dr. Taj Hashmi is a professor of security studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. He worked as professor of Islamic and Asian history, politics and culture, at various universities, including the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University in Canada; Dhaka University and Independent University in Bangladesh. His teaching and research interests include: Political Islam, Islamic Resurgence and Militancy, Ethnicity, Regionalism and Security in the Asia-Pacific; Civil-Military Relations, Religion, Identity, Democracy and Civil Society in South Asia; Culture, Governance and
Underdevelopment in the Asia-Pacific; Popular Nationalism, Insurgency and Civil War in Post-Colonial South Asia. All these sums up Dr. Hashmi’s qualification to writing such a piece that talks about Bangladesh’s chaotic stage that it has been going through for years. The article itself was published in the book: Bangladesh: On the Threshold of the Twenty-First Century, and it contributes significantly to the revaluation of the country's past. It also shows how the future of the country strictly depends on making some drastic change or else the country will lapse into an an archival society.
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