An eventful politics of difference and its afterlife: Chittagong frontier, Bengal, c. 1657–1757

Choudhury, Rishad

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“…To state the position of Chattogram Port in the seventeenth century, Scholberg and Arasaratnam (1994) explored the name for the merchant port used by Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malay, Arab, and Persian traders. As viewed by Choudhury (2015), Chattogram was a cosmopolitan city, and was attractive to foreigners for trade prior to the Mughal conquest, setting a place for dominating the region in Asia.…”

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Chattogram Port: A dedicated service institution to evolve the country boldly

Saha

2022

Marit. Technol. Res.

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Critical success factors, Maritime load centerChattogram Port, the premier seaport of Bangladesh, has reached a remarkable position, not only in South Asia, but also in the world for its record performance in handling cargo and containers. This has happened due to continuous increase of GDP, infrastructural development, increased purchasing power, foreign exchange by manpower business, port development, and the efforts of many people. The history of Chattogram port began in the 4 th century BC, when Chattogram was known as "Shetgang", or "Delta of the Ganges"; later, in the 16 th century, it was known as "Porte Grande". The present location of the port was established in the year 1887 that developed by 1910. In 1960, all assets of the port were declared under the property of "Port Trust". However, port management, operations, and others are directed by Chittagong Port Authority Ordinance, 1976. As per port throughput of 2019, the port was declared as the 58 th busiest container port in the world by Lloyds List in their 100 ports ranking in 2020. Furthermore, in 2021, Chattogram Port handled a record 3.2 million TEUs. This research applied a mixed-method approach, where the quantitative approach tried to explore Chattogram Port's performance data, and the qualitative approach used historical data and information to articulate port features in the internal and external environment. The originalities of this research are geopolitical debate to select Chattogram Port as a prime maritime load center of South Asia to connect the landlocked parts of India, Nepal, Bhutan, China, and Myanmar, active regional and international forums like BCIM, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal (BBIN), SAARC, BIMSTEC, OBOR, and QUAD based on Chattogram Port, and development of Liner Shipping Connectivity Index (LSCI) internationally to improve freight transport connectivity, and use expansion of hinterland to provide maritime logistics services for regional connectivity. A recent step by the port authority to invest in constructing a deep seaport in the Bay of Bengal, attractive to the world port community and remarked by all in port expansion, investment, and efficiency, was investigated rigorously. Overall, this paper aims to explore Chattogram Port's current activity and future planning, and recall the port's history as inspiration and motivation to shape the port in a notable position in the port world.

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Section: History Of Chattogram Portmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chattogram Port: A dedicated service institution to evolve the country boldly

Saha

2022

Marit. Technol. Res.

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Farming and Eating in an Indigenous Asian Borderland: Histories of Botany, Agriculture, and Food in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, East Bengal

Jhala

2022

Global Food History

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Regimes of Diplomacy and Law: Bengal-China Encounters in the Early Fifteenth Century

Kooria

2021

J. Econ. Soc. Hist. Orient

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This article examines the Bengal–China connections between the Ilyās Shāhī and Ming dynasties in the early fifteenth century across the Bay of Bengal and South China Sea. It traces how law played a central role in the cultural geography and diplomatic vocabulary between individuals and communities in foreign lands, with their shared understanding of two nodal points of law. Diplomatic missions explicate how customary, regional and transregional laws were entangled in inter-imperial etiquette. Then there were the religious orders of Islam that constituted an inner circle of imperial exchanges. Between the Ilyās Shāhī rule in Bengal and the Ming Empire in China, certain dimensions of Islamic law provided a common language for the circulation of people and ideas. Stretching between cities and across oceans the interpolity legal exchanges expose interesting aspects of the histories of China and Bengal.

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An eventful politics of difference and its afterlife: Chittagong frontier, Bengal, c. 1657–1757

Cited by 6 publications

References 30 publications

Chattogram Port: A dedicated service institution to evolve the country boldly

Chattogram Port: A dedicated service institution to evolve the country boldly

Farming and Eating in an Indigenous Asian Borderland: Histories of Botany, Agriculture, and Food in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, East Bengal

Regimes of Diplomacy and Law: Bengal-China Encounters in the Early Fifteenth Century

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