Sarmila bose biography of donald

Bose aims for a revisionist reconstruction of the Bangladesh Liberation War in a chronological fashion using material evidence as well as public memory. She notes the war to have had its origins in a xenophobic and communal expressions of Bengali nationalism. Scholars have accused her of flawed reasoning, deep-rooted pro-Pakistani sentiment and biased methodology unsuitable any academic review of this nature as clear attempt at historical revisionism by cherry-picking sources, and downplaying recorded war crimes and ethnic cleansing.

Martin Woollacott , the foreign correspondent of The Guardian , found it to be a long-overdue study which exonerated the Pakistani Government of planning to rule Bangladesh East Pakistan by force and stood to provoke "fresh research and fresh thinking".

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The book was subject to positive reception in Pakistan for its rare favorable portrayal. Pakistani book authors and media journalists meanwhile have also published their own works challenging the allegations of the Bangladeshi government on the events of the war. Chaity Das, reviewing over Journal of South Asian Development, found the book to be an exercise in "glossy revisionism"; failing to see beyond the number of casualties, Bose engaged in an opportunistic and inconsistent pitting of memory against memory to discredit the narratives of victims and exonerate the Pakistan Army.

Urvashi Butalia , a feminist historian of memory, reviewing for Tehelka , noted the work to be spoiled by her "hubris and irrational biases"; Bose exonerated Pakistani officers of mass-rape and wanton violence by taking their accounts as "straightforward" truth but labeled all Bangladeshi accounts as "claims". Srinath Raghavan , an Indian historian of contemporary history , reviewing for The Indian Express characterized Bose's work to be a "disturbing misrepresentation of the war" — "it [was] impossible to review the entire catalogue of evasions, obfuscations, omissions and methodological errors".

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