Little is know about the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh (CHT), an area of approximately 5,089 square miles in southeastern Bangladesh. It is inhabited by

Sheds light on the context, processes, and politics of ending the decades-long armed insurgency and building peace in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts.

Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's state-of-the-art history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that cr