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Piety, music and gender transformation: reconfiguring women as culture bearing markers of modernity and nationalism in Bangladesh

Huq, Samia

The rise in an intense, textually-based piety, which has become increasingly prevalent in many circles in Bangladesh in the past decade, sees music as taking away from an ideal pious disposition, and therefore considers ...
Defining self and other: Bangladesh’s secular aspirations and its writing of islam

Huq, Samia (© 2013 Sameeksha Trust, 2013-12)

Bangladesh’s experience with secularism has been a checkered one. Beginning with a strong constitutional mandate and political rhetoric, the word secularism has been changed, removed and restored, while Islam remains the ...