The resurrection of the Golden age is one of the fondest dreams of the nationalists throughout the developing countries. Appalled by the disparities between the standard of living in developing and industrial countries, the nationalist leaders in the less developed societies evoked the image of a golden age in their history which is usually not in the disagreeable recent past, but in a more remote past, and is defined and corroborated by historicism. The dream of the restoration of a Golden age is the defence mechanism for safeguarding the self-esteem of nations blighted by stark deprivation. There are two underlying assumptions in the Golden Bengal hypothesis which inspired the nationalists in Bangladesh. First, it is postulated that Bengal enjoyed uninterrupted economic prosperity before the establishment of the British rule in India. Secondly, Bengal in the pre-British era was more prosperous than other adjoining contemporary societies. (Introduction, Discovery of Bangladesh, Akbar Ali Khan, Page:12)
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