Rise of Parallel Power: Jamaat-e-Islami and Economic Fundamentalism in Bangladesh

• In Event: Parties, Democracy and Authoritarianism in Asia

Brief Overview

The paper examines how Jamaat-e-Islami’s economic networks in Bangladesh enable it to act as a de facto parallel state, transforming economic capital into political legitimacy and challenging the state’s authority and framework of sovereignty.

Authors

• Tapas Das, Presidency University, kolkata

• Ratnadeep Maitra, Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence Deemed to be University