Peter Custers Collection

Period 1973-1994
Total size   0.15 m.
Consultation Restricted
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Biography

P.J.J.M. Custers; pseudonym: Revo Conti; born in Nijmegen, the Netherlands 1949; journalist in Bangladesh during the last years of the presidency of Mujibur Rahman 1973-1975; his interest in Asian liberation movements and his research on Bangladesh and other countries in South Asia culminated in his dissertation Capital Accumulation and Women's Labour in Asian Economies (Nijmegen, 1995).

Zie ook: www.petercusters.nl

Content

Draft of his dissertation 1994; other typescripts, including `Rural poor women and revolutionary leadership. The example of the Tebhaga uprising in Bengal (1946-1947)' 1986 (published in 1987); texts of interviews and other documents relating to his research into the comparative history of the Tebhaga uprising in Bengal and the Telengana peasant movement around Hyderabad in India (1939-1951); a `Manifesto for Proletarian Unity' and other processed and printed documents on revolutionary struggle and peasant organization in Bangladesh 1974-1975; photocopy of a handwritten anonymous biography of Taher n.d.; copies of articles by Conti on Bangladesh published in the Dutch press 1973-1975.

Processing information

Lists (non digital) by Peter Custers in 1986 and 1989