Bangladeshism:Influenced by Modernization and Dependency Theory

This/The land is 147,570 km² and surrounded by India from all three sides. After the decline of the Mughal Empire in the 1700s. Bengal became a semi-independent state under the  Nawabs of Bengal , after which it was conquered by the  British East India Company  at the  Battle of Plassey  in 1757, directly contributing to the  Industrial Revolution  in Britain and to  deindustrialization  in Bengal. The Bengali city of  Calcutta  served as the capital city of  British India  up until the early 20th century. Later after the British rule the land was named East Pakistan and they gained independence in 1971 and was named Bangladesh. Bangladesh is considered to be a Third World country and the etymology of the term ‘third world’ is quite interesting. It was coined by a French economist and demographer named Alfred Sauvy, who considered these developing countries in South Asia, Latin America and Africa to be like th...