Dynamics of the people's cultural and political struggles in an emerging Bangladesh

This essay explores how the Bangladesh people’s War for Liberation spanned cultural and political spheres and how suppressed and dispossessed classes were involved as actors in the cultural-economic-political matrix. The class forces acted and reacted in a historical context that the defined path of the war. It notes that, on the one hand, the war was an act of annihilation, and on the other, an act of construction – a dialectical process, which enabled cultural and political developments and developments in the areas of ideology and organizations. All the developments connected to the classes and economic questions manifested in political struggles – legal/constitutional/unarmed and illegal/extra-constitutional/armed. The article covers the period from mid-August 1947 to mid-December 1971.