1971 : a people's history from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India / Anam Zakaria
By: Zakaria, Anam.
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954.92004958 PLI The plight of the stateless Rohingyas responses of the state, society and the international community | 954.9205 BAN Bangladesh promise and performance | 954.9205 ZAK 1971 a people's history from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India | 954.9205 ZAK 1971 a people's history from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India | 954.922 TAY তাওয়ারিখে ঢাকা | 954.923 BAN চট্টগ্রাম অভ্যুত্থানে (১৯৩০-১৯৪১) মুসলমান, বৌদ্ধ এবং সমগ্র মহিলা সমাজ | 954.923 SCH The Chittagong hill tracts living in a borderland |
incl. bibliographical references and index.
Preface -- Part I Journeys: Past and Present -- Selective silence, selective remembrances -- The enemy -- Remembering 1947 -- Part II1947- 1971: The seeds of unrest -- When language becomes dissent -- Disillusionment -- A west Pakistani in East Pakistan -- Part III 971: The Year that was -- Bangladesh's war -- India's war -- Pakistan war -- Part IV -- Institutionalizing the memory of the war -- My truth, your truth -- The loyalty card -- Acknowledgement -- Notes -- Index
The year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral history projects, in its curriculum, in people's homes and their stories, and in political discourse. It marks the birth of the nation, it's liberation. More than 1000 miles away, in Pakistan too, 1971 marks a watershed moment, its memories sitting uncomfortably in public imagination. It is remembered as the 'Fall of Dacca', the dismemberment of Pakistan or the third Indo-Pak war. In India, 1971 represents something else-the story of humanitarian intervention, of triumph and valour that paved the way for India's rise as a military power, the beginning of its journey to becoming a regional superpower.
Navigating the widely varied terrain that is 1971 across Pakistan, Bangladesh and India, Anam Zakaria sifts through three distinct state narratives, and studies the institutionalization of the memory of the year and its events. Through a personal journey, she juxtaposes state narratives with people's history on the ground, bringing forth the nuanced experiences of those who lived through the war. Using intergenerational interviews, textbook analyses, visits to schools and travels to museums and sites commemorating 1971, Zakaria explores the ways in which 1971 is remembered and forgotten across countries, generations and communities -- Book cover
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