1 januari, 2007

 From the cover:
Jhagrapur Revisited is a collection of articles by researcher and journalist Jos van Beurden. He arrived with his colleague Jenneke Arens in Bangladesh late 1973. Their pioneering study Jhagrapur: Poor peasants and women in a village in Bangladesh has been read by generations of social science students and others, and is still available in Bengali.
Different from the academic Jhagrapur study, the present volume is a journalistic product, a presentation of observations of Jos van Beurden during later visits to Bangladesh. The author returns to the village to study the differences which have come about in the last three decades.
In chapter one of Jhagrapur Revisited, Jos van Beurden describes his recent visits to Jhagrapur, and compares the conditions in the village at the start of the 21st century with those in 1970’s. In the second chapter he looks back to that period, to the research methodology and his approaches to issues in Bangladesh. Chapter three describes the theft of Bangladesh’s cultural heritage and places this in the context of the worldwide problem of illicit excavation, smuggling and theft of art and antiquities. In chapter four, he dwells on a much neglected aspect in the history of Bangladesh: the Dutch United East India Company. Bangladesh and the Netherlands had close relations in the 18th century. Jos van Beurden points in chapter five to the importance of migrant remittances for Bangladesh and comments on the global discussion on migration and international cooperation. He has reserved the last chapter for observations of Bangladesh’s research culture.

Jhagrapur Revisited, Pearl Publications, Dhaka, 2007
ISBN 984-495-188-7

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