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Dead reckoning : memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War / Sarmila Bose.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.Description: x, 239 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780231701648 (alk. paper)
  • 0231701640 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 954.92046 22
Contents:
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.
List(s) this item appears in: Social Science & humanities
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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.

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