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Khaleda Zia and the enduring paradox of Bangladeshi politics – III

THE years following Sheikh Hasina’s return to power in 2009 marked not merely a political shift but the construction of an entirely new order. What appeared at first as a democratic mandate soon revealed itself as a project of consolidation — an appropriation of state institutions into the service of dynastic authority. Bureaucracy and the armed forces, traditionally...