Prologue: 'speak, for your lips are free' -- From minority to nation -- Truncated state, divided nation -- A sprawling military barrack -- Pitfalls of martial rule -- Toward the watershed of 1971 -- The rise and fall of populism -- Martial rule in an Islamic garb -- Democracy restored? -- A geostrategic riddle -- Entangled endgames -- Epilogue: overcoming terror.
