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- Aug 23, 2026
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Why Chittagong never became a maritime city (opens the original)
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Many know of the term ‘maritime city’, coined by the late historian Ashin Das Gupta, but as he saw it as a mercurial and ephemeral phenomenon, few know what it is. It had few striking edifices. Its absence of physical infrastructure meant that it could be easily dismantled and assembled elsewhere. Such characteristics make it difficult to locate the maritime city, yet we still apply the label indiscriminately. Let us interrogate the term’s utility for Bengal, but first we shall see what other ur
Bengal's forgotten slave trade: Portuguese, Arakanese and Dutch trafficking networks (opens the original)
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We tend to equate economic growth with social and political vitality in conventional history-writing, but this was not the case in southeast Bengal. Environmental pressures led to a social crisis in the seventeenth century, manifested through slave raids by a Portuguese-Arakanese combine (Magh). Subsequent slave trading by Arakan and Portugal, and later by the Dutch East India Company (VOC), unveiled the paradox of social breakdown during a period of economic growth, as the active delta generate
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