01691cam a22001815i 450000500170000000800410001701000170005802000180007502000180009302000180011104000230012908200260015210000290017824500960020726300090030330000130031252011840032520210623150656.0210125s2021    cau           000 0 eng    a  2021931215  a9789353887391  z9789353887407  z9789353887414  aDLCbengerdacDLC  a954.9205092bSOU 20211 aSobhan, Rehman,eauthor.10aUntranquil recollections :bnation building in post-liberation Bangladesh /cRehman Sobhan.  a2102  apages cm  a"Rehman Sobhan was directly associated with Bangladesh's liberation struggle. In this memoir, he provides an insightful, first-hand account of the challenges faced by the newly independent Bangladesh in the early years of its existence. This book attempts to capture the unique problems of reconstructing the war-devastated economy while building institutions from ground up for a nation which for 24 years had been run through a highly centralized system of colonial-style governance. Untranquil Recollections gives special attention to the author's involvement, as a Member of the Planning Commission, in addressing the problem of reconstruction while coping with the political challenges associated with building institutions, formulating economic policies and overseeing their implementation. The narrative attempts to identify the economic and political forces that were inimical to the radical direction of the national policy set by Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The book concludes with a discussion of the dark events leading to Mujibur Rahman's assassination along with his family and his closest political colleagues, which resulted in a change in the regime"--