The study of the Bangladesh state continues to be a path less travelled for scholars of South Asia. The articles in this special issue aim to offer fresh perspectives based on recent ethnographic work on a variety of aspects of the state by new young national and international scholars. Overall, there is a pressing need to pay closer attention to the state and to think about it in new ways, and in this brief concluding article, we offer some thoughts on where we are and some pointers towards where we may need to go. While there are many strengths to the small quantity of literature that exists on this theme, there are also some important limitations.

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重新思考孟加拉国国家

对于南亚学者来说，对孟加拉国国的研究仍然是一条鲜为人知的道路。本期特刊中的文章旨在提供新的视角，这些观点基于新的国内和国际青年学者最近对国家各个方面的民族志工作。总的来说，迫切需要更密切地关注状态并以新的方式思考它，在这篇简短的总结文章中，我们提供了一些关于我们所处位置的想法以及一些指向我们可能需要去哪里的指示。虽然存在于这个主题的少量文献有很多优点，但也有一些重要的局限性。