the people of country rise up in revolt against the military government of that country, it is an affair which concerns not only the anti-democratic government of that country but also all the democratic, freedom loving people of the world.
This story of Bangladesh has been written by Dr. Bangendu Ganguli and Dr. Mira Ganguli. They have taken a lot of trouble to write this within a short time, and we are really grateful to them.
The conscience of the world has been profoundly shocked at the latest manifestation of the arrogant unrighteousness of the present rulers of Pakistan. This is but the culmination of a long series of acts of intimidation and economic exploitation, from suppressions of the Bengalese people to deliberate mass murder.
Separated geographically by over one thousand miles of Indian territory but bound together by the Islamic faith, two distant regions were united as the nation State of Pakistan just over twenty-three years ago. But these years did not bring the two wings any nearer. On the contrary, their differences were accentuated. There can be no doubt about the fact that the West wing prospered dramatically over the as two decades while the economically backward but more populous East wing remained one of the most backward areas of the world. And it is at the expense to the East win that the West prospered.
Economic Disparity
Per capita income in West Pakistan was much higher than in the East. While the disparity in real incomes per capita was somewhere between 40 and 50 per cent, the amount of resources made a valuable to West Pakistan per capita had exceeded that to East Pakistan by an even wide margin. The latter was mad possible partly by a net transfer of visible resources from the East to the West and partly by a higher allocation of foreign aid to the West.
One can obtain good approximations for regional incomes originating in banking and insurance by a breakdown of national totals based on the provincial distribution of deposits and advances of scheduled banks. This showed it ratio of about 3 to 1 in favor of Wes Pakistan. Some idea of the regional incomes originating in the central government and defense might be obtained by using the data on provincial distribution of the labor force in public administration. For 1955 this tattoo was also about 3 to 1 in favor of West Pakistan.
But calculations of regional disparity in per capita money incomes would not quite reveal the disparity in real incomes since the purchasing power of money in the two regions was not the same. The Second Five- Year Plan of Pakistan stated that the prices of similar goods had generally been higher in East Pakistan than in West Pakistan, the
