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4%OFFYasmin Saikia - Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971 - 9780822350385 - V9780822350385
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Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971

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Description for Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971 Paperback. Bangladeshi women recall the sexualized violence of the war of 1971, fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JFFE; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 442.
Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is acknowledged in Pakistan, it is cast as an act of betrayal by the Bengalis. None of these nationalist histories convey the human cost of the war. Pakistani and Indian soldiers and Bengali militiamen raped and tortured women on a mass scale. In Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh, survivors tell their stories, revealing ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822350385
SKU
V9780822350385
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About Yasmin Saikia
Yasmin Saikia is the Hardt-Nickachos Chair in Peace Studies and Professor of History at Arizona State University. She is the author of Fragmented Memories: Struggling to Be Tai-Ahom in India, also published by Duke University Press.

Reviews for Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh: Remembering 1971
Yasmin Saikia's book is an important intervention in the discourse around 1971. It examines and demonstrates clearly the brutality of war as experienced by various marginalised groups, especially women, and the ongoing routine violence of the silencing of their voices. Saikia documents women's voices and highlights their agency and the multiplicities of their role in the conflict.
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