Bangladesh, Aug. 21 -- In Bangladesh's altered political landscape since the July Uprising, campus politics at Dhaka University has taken on a new shape.

At the centre of it stands Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami, now operating more openly than at any point in its 48-year history

For decades, Shibir's activities were curtailed on campus. During the Awami League's 15 years in power, it was unable to hold political programmes at Bangladesh's premier public university.

Yet, as it emerged after the Uprising, its members quietly infiltrated the ruling Awami League's student front, the Bangladesh Chhatra League, and embedded themselves in cultural and social organisations. That covert work allowed Shibir to sus...