Dead reckoning : memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War / Sarmila Bose.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.Description: x, 239 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780231701648 (alk. paper)
- 0231701640 (alk. paper)
- Bangladesh -- History -- Revolution, 1971 -- Personal narratives
- Collective memory -- Bangladesh
- Interviews -- Bangladesh
- War victims -- Bangladesh -- Interviews
- Bangladesh -- Biography
- Bangladesh -- History -- Revolution, 1971 -- Social aspects
- War and society -- Bangladesh -- History -- 20th century
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Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Books | Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Liberation War Shelves | 954.92046 B7431d 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 01 | Not For Loan | 022820 |
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.