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'''Sarmila Bose''' is an [[Indian-American]] journalist and academic. She | {{update|date=May 2022}} | ||
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'''Sarmila Bose''' is an [[Indian-American]] journalist and academic. She has served as 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] {{deadlink|date=May 2022}}</ref> She is the author of ''[[Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War]],'' a controversial 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> | |||
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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 | 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 criticized by Columbia University professor [[Naeem Mohaiemen]] in BBC<ref name="LawsonControversial" /> and ''Economic & Political Weekly<ref name="FlyingBlind">{{cite journal|last=Mohaiemen|first=Naeem|date=2011-09-03|title=Flying Blind: Waiting for a Real Reckoning on 1971|url=https://www.epw.in/journal/2011/53/discussion/dead-reckoning-response.html|journal=Economic & Political Weekly|volume=46|issue=36|pages=40–52|authorlink=Naeem Mohaiemen|accessdate=2015-03-19}}</ref>'' for ahistorical bias in sources. She has responded to three of her critics — [[Naeem Mohaiemen]], [[Urvashi Butalia]], and Srinath Raghavan.<ref name="DRResponse">{{cite journal|last=Bose|first=Sarmila|date=2011-12-31|title='Dead Reckoning': A Response|url=https://www.epw.in/journal/2011/36/special-articles/flying-blind-waiting-real-reckoning-1971.html|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> | 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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[[Category:Bryn Mawr College alumni]] | [[Category:Bryn Mawr College alumni]] | ||
[[Category:Harvard | [[Category:Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni]] | ||
[[Category:American emigrants to England]] | [[Category:American emigrants to England]] | ||
[[Category:English people of Indian descent]] | [[Category:English people of Indian descent]] | ||
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[[Category:Women writers from West Bengal]] | [[Category:Women writers from West Bengal]] | ||
[[Category:American women academics]] | [[Category:American women academics]] | ||
[[Category:Harvard Kennedy School alumni]] | |||