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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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Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Liberation War Shelves 954.92046 B7431d 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 01 Not For Loan 022820
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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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