India, Dec. 21 -- The contemporary political crisis in Bangladesh, culminating in the 2004 'Monsoon Revolution' and the subsequent 2025 sentencing of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death, is not a sudden eruption of civil unrest but the manifestation of a deep-seated ideological war that began at the nation's inception.

This conflict pits the secular-nationalist vision of the "pro-liberation" forces against a resilient and increasingly powerful Islamist and pro-Pakistan contingent that has viewed the creation of Bangladesh with Indian military assistance as a historical anomaly and a betrayal of Islamic unity.

The recent fall of the Awami League government and the resurgence of Jamaat-e-Islami represent a fundamental "turning of...