Recounting the Memories of Bangladesh's Liberation War

ISBN-13: 9781032481319 / Twarda / 2024 / 186 str.

Opis

This book encapsulates creation of Bangladesh with stories of those who made it happen. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of politics, international relations, partition studies, South Asian diaspora studies.

Spis treści

Foreword Introduction - Peoples War and Struggle for Bangladesh’s Liberation: The Historical Context 1. Making of the Bangladesh State: Shaheed Dhirendranath Datta, Bengali Language Movement and Birth of a Nation 2. Operation Kilo Flight: Night Attack By Otter Aircraft – A First-Hand Account 3.  The Saga of Sylhet 4. My Days at the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendro: The Radio Broadcasting Centre During Ba ngladesh Liberation War in 1971 5. The Road to Victory Day 1971: An Insider’s Account 6. Interrogating the Spirit of 1971: Beyond Historicisms 7.  Working with the Refugees, 1971 8.  1971: Memories, Facts and Words Overheard 9. India–Bangladesh Ties: Half Century of Consolidation 10.  Bangladesh–India Relations: Strengthening Historical Ties 11.  Opportunity of the Century 12.  Bangladesh: A Half Century into Freedom 13.  Historicising the Birangona: Interrogating the Politics of Commemorating the Wartime Rape of 1971 in the Context of the 50th Anniversary of Bangladesh 14.  Histories and Memories of the Liberation War: Saranarthis in Tripura 15.  Waging War Through Humour: Political Cartoons and the War of 1971 as Depicted in Calcutta-Based Print Media 16.  The Liberation War of 1971 and India 17.  The United States and Bangladesh 18.  Liberation War Through the Cinematic Lens From the Archives 19.  Historic 7 March 1971 Speech of Bangabandhu 20.  Resolution Regarding Recent Development in East Bengal, 31 March 1971 and Statement Regarding Situation in Bangla Desh, May 24, 1971.

21.  Bangla Desh and Our Policy Options 22.  We Don’t Know Defeat 23.  Speech of the Prime Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi at a Public Rally in Dacca, 17 March 1972

O autorze

Smruti S. Pattanaik is a Fellow at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi, India. Her research focuses on politics in South Asia and India’s neighbourhood policy. She has conducted extensive field research on Bangladesh, focussing on the liberation war, identity politics and democracy. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Department of International Relations at the University of Dhaka, where she spent more than a year studying Bangladesh.