The colonel who would not repent the Bangladesh war and its unquiet legacy
Bangladesh was once East Pakistan, the predominantly Muslim nation carved out of the Indian subcontinent when it gained independence from Britain in 1947. As religion alone could not keep East Pakistan and West Pakistan together, Bengali-speaking East Pakistan fought for and achieved liberation in 1...
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New Haven
Yale University Press
2016
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Table of Contents:
- The Land That Wasn't Easy to Carve
- The Girl Who No Longer Felt Pakistani
- The Making of a Saint
- The Night the Killings Began
- The Freedom Fighters
- A Friend in Need: In Which India Joins the War
- The Brave Ones
- The Assassination of a Failed Revolutionary
- Getting to Know the Generals
- Two Women and their Troubled Inheritance
- Judgement Day