Bose, Sarmila.

Dead reckoning : memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War / Sarmila Bose. - New York :GHQ Rawalpindi Columbia University Press,/Service book club c2011. - x, 239 p. ; 23 cm.

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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Collective memory--Bangladesh.
Interviews--Bangladesh.
War and society--History--Bangladesh
War victims--Bangladesh

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