Recounting the Memories of Bangladesh’s Liberation War: Why It Is Still Relevant

This book encapsulates creation of Bangladesh with stories of those who made it happen. It will be of interest to scholars and researchers of politics, international relations, partition studies, South Asian diaspora studies.

Smruti S. Pattanaik is a Fellow at the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA), New Delhi, India. Her research focuses on politics in South Asia and India’s neighbourhood policy. She has conducted extensive field research on Bangladesh, focussing on the liberation war, identity politics and democracy. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Department of International Relations at the University of Dhaka, where she spent more than a year studying Bangladesh.