Sarmila Bose

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'''Sarmila Bose''' is an [[Indian-American]] journalist and academic. She is currently a senior research associate at the Centre for International Studies in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the [[University of Oxford]].<ref name=Oxford>[http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/associates/sarmila-bose.html Oxford University Faculty Bio]</ref> She is the author of ''[[Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War]],'' a book on the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]].<ref name="LawsonControversial">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13417170|title=Controversial book accuses Bengalis of 1971 war crimes|last=Lawson|first=Alastair|date=16 June 2011|newspaper=BBC|accessdate=30 December 2013}}</ref><ref name=mythbusting>Sarmila Bose, [http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/05/20115983958114219.html Myth-busting the Bangladesh war of 1971], Al Jazeera, 9 May 2011.</ref>

== Life and family ==
Bose belonged to an ethnic [[Bengalis|Bengali]] family with extensive involvement in national politics in India. She was the grandniece of [[Indian Independence movement|Indian nationalist]] [[Subhas Chandra Bose]], granddaughter of nationalist [[Sarat Chandra Bose]], and daughter of former [[Trinamool Congress]] [[Member of Parliament|parliamentarian]] [[Krishna Bose]] and paediatrician [[Sisir Kumar Bose]].

Sarmila Bose was born in Boston in 1959, but grew up in Calcutta. She returned to the US for higher studies. She obtained a bachelor's degree in history from [[Bryn Mawr College]], a master's degree in public administration from the [[Harvard Kennedy School]], and a PhD in Political Economy and Government from [[Harvard University]].<ref name=Oxford/><ref name="bio">[https://sarmilabose.com/bio-2/ Bio], sarmilabose.com, Retrieved 8 August 2016.</ref> After her doctorate, she has held teaching and research positions at Harvard University, Warwick University, George Washington University, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and Oxford University.<ref name="bio"/>

Bose's brother, [[Sumantra Bose]], teaches at the [[London School of Economics]].<ref name=lunch>Anjali Puri, [http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/lunch-with-bs-sugata-bose-116030400361_1.html Lunch With BS: Sugata Bose], Business Standard, 4 March 2016.</ref><ref name=BhaumikBook>{{cite news|last=Bhaumik|first=Subir|title=Book, film greeted with fury among Bengalis|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/04/2011429174141565122.html|accessdate=21 December 2013|newspaper=aljazeera|date=29 April 2011}}</ref> Her brother [[Sugata Bose]] is a member of Indian parliament since 2014.<ref>{{cite web|title=Election results: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose's grandnephew Sugata Bose wins from Bengal's Jadavpur|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/lok-sabha-elections-2014/news/Election-results-Netaji-Subhash-Chandra-Boses-grandnephew-Sugata-Bose-wins-from-Bengals-Jadavpur/articleshow/35210581.cms|publisher=Times of India}}</ref>

== Works ==
In her book, ''[[Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War]],'' Bose claims that [[1971 Bangladesh genocide|atrocities]] were committed by both sides in the conflict, but that memories of the atrocities had been "dominated by the narrative of the victorious side", pointing to Indian and Bangladeshi "myths" and "exaggerations" which were not historically or statistically plausible. While the book does not exonerate the [[West Pakistan]]i forces, it claims that the army officers "turned out to be fine men doing their best to fight an unconventional war within the conventions of warfare". The book was criticised by Bangladeshi anthropologist [[Naeem Mohaiemen]] in the [[BBC News|BBC]] for an alleged bias in the selection of her sources;<ref name="LawsonControversial" /> Mohaiemen also criticized her articles in ''Economic & Political Weekly'' on the same subject.<ref name="FlyingBlind">{{cite journal|last=Mohaiemen|first=Naeem|authorlink=Naeem Mohaiemen|date=2011-09-03|title=Flying Blind: Waiting for a Real Reckoning on 1971|url=https://www.academia.edu/919415|journal=Economic & Political Weekly|volume=46|issue=36|pages=40–52|accessdate=2015-03-19}}</ref> She has responded to three of her most notable critics — [[Naeem Mohaiemen]], [[Urvashi Butalia]], and Srinath Raghavan — in the same publication.<ref name="DRResponse">{{cite journal|last=Bose|first=Sarmila|date=2011-12-31|title='Dead Reckoning': A Response|url=https://www.academia.edu/1190472|journal=Economic & Political Weekly|volume=46|issue=53|pages=76–79|accessdate=2015-03-19}}</ref>

She has also authored ''Money, Energy, and Welfare: the state and the household in India's rural electrification policy'', published by Oxford University Press in 1993.<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/title/money-energy-and-welfare-the-state-and-the-household-in-indias-rural-electrification-policy/oclc/31972206&referer=brief_results WorldCat item record]</ref>

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