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1. BOOK REVIEW Dead reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War

2. AIM The aim of this presentation is to give a brief review of the mentioned book.

3. SEQ Gen info About Author Summary Conclusion

4. GEN INFO Book: Dead Reckoning: Memories of th 1971 Bangladesh War Author: Sarmila Bose Publisher: Oxford University Press No of pages: 239 No of chap: 9

5. ABOUT AUTHOR Indian-American journalist and academic Born in Boston in 1959 Alma mater: Bryn Mawr College Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Science Harvard Kennedy School Harvard University

6. SUMMARY Sarmila Bose must be praised  for undertaking the  first real  research on the mistakes committed during the  “independence   war  of Bangladesh in 1971. I n Dead Reckoning she brought first hand information from the field by  investigating  each reported or well known blunder by  interviewing and quoting eye witnesses. The whole book is the culmination of  several  years of  research   divided   into nine roughly chronological chapters starting with the elections of December 1917and  its bloody aftermath in the then  East   Pakistan  until December  1971   with division of  Pakistan

7. SUMMARY Sarmila Bose’s Dead Reckoning paves a brand new path to the conflict of  1971 based not on prejudice or emotions but on concrete research work. Dead Reckoning questions the very fundamental and mostly unsubstantiated aspects to the conflict that Bangladeshis and Indians have held to be sacrosanct until now. For example whether the 3 million dead’’ postulate is scientifically valid? Did the Mukti Bahini command popular support? And most importantly can Bengali nationalists claim the higher moral ground in accusing their then enemy of war crimes.

8. CONC Sarmila Bose’s stunning Dead Reckoning is the  first book length study to elaborate the violence based on actual evidence .  Her  powerful retelling of the birth  of Bangladesh exposes  the wounds of  civil war and international conflict in a way that has not been done before. Her book should help the people of both countries accept the facts of that tragic and bloody separation of 1 97 1 and to take responsibility for the war that stained the verdant Bengali countryside

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