Dead reckoning : memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War /
Bose, Sarmila.
Dead reckoning : memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War / Sarmila Bose. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2011. - x, 239 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Memories in conflict -- Call to arms : Bengali nationalist rebellion -- Military inaction : power without responsibility -- Military action : "Operation Searchlight" in Dhaka -- Uncivil war : mobs, mutinies, and madness -- Village of widows : "securing" the countryside -- Hounding of Hindus : the politics of minority persecution -- Hit and run : sabotage and retribution -- Fratricide : death squads at war's end -- Words and numbers : memories and monstrous fables -- Appendix 1: Bibliographical note -- Appendix 2: List of interviewees.
9780231701648 (alk. paper) 0231701640 (alk. paper)
Collective memory--Bangladesh.
Interviews--Bangladesh.
War victims--Bangladesh--Interviews.
War and society--History--Bangladesh--20th century.
Bangladesh--History--Revolution, 1971--Personal narratives.
Bangladesh--Biography.
Bangladesh--History--Social aspects.--Revolution, 1971
954.92046
Dead reckoning : memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War / Sarmila Bose. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2011. - x, 239 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Memories in conflict -- Call to arms : Bengali nationalist rebellion -- Military inaction : power without responsibility -- Military action : "Operation Searchlight" in Dhaka -- Uncivil war : mobs, mutinies, and madness -- Village of widows : "securing" the countryside -- Hounding of Hindus : the politics of minority persecution -- Hit and run : sabotage and retribution -- Fratricide : death squads at war's end -- Words and numbers : memories and monstrous fables -- Appendix 1: Bibliographical note -- Appendix 2: List of interviewees.
9780231701648 (alk. paper) 0231701640 (alk. paper)
Collective memory--Bangladesh.
Interviews--Bangladesh.
War victims--Bangladesh--Interviews.
War and society--History--Bangladesh--20th century.
Bangladesh--History--Revolution, 1971--Personal narratives.
Bangladesh--Biography.
Bangladesh--History--Social aspects.--Revolution, 1971
954.92046