'Memoirs of Dacca University 1947-1951' Short Summary of the book AG Stock was a visiting professor at Dacca University, East Pakistan in the immediate aftermath of the Partition. As a progressive academic, she recorded the political and intellectual ferment of that time with rare insight and sensitivity. As a literary scholar, she wrote lyrically about its social and natural landscape. Her memoir is a classic portrait, in the era of decolonisation, of a people passionate in the defence of their culture, and of a new nation in vigorous search of its identity.