Bangladesh’s Struggle Against Indian Hegemony in a Post-Awami Era

Reading Time: 4 minutes In the wake of the political upheaval that saw the exit of Sheikh Hasina’s long-standing regime in mid-2024, Bangladesh finds itself at a decisive crossroads. The rise of a new interim government led by Nobel laureate Dr Muhammad Yunus has stirred hopes of renewal and reform, but the road ahead is hardly smooth. While the domestic front continues to grapple with rebuilding democratic institutions and regaining public trust, a more insidious challenge lurks just across the border. India, the regional heavyweight, appears to have taken a dim view of the political changes in Dhaka, and has, according to several observers, begun to flex its muscles in subtler ways. What has emerged in recent months is not a confrontation in the conventional sense, but rather what security analysts term “low-intensity warfare” — an unrelenting combination of economic pressure, political interference, psychological operations, and narrative manipulation. It is