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The Aftermath of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971: Enduring Impact book cover

1st Edition

The Aftermath of the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 Enduring Impact

Edited By Amit Ranjan, Taj Hashmi, Mazhar Abbas Copyright 2025
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge
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This book analyses the human dimension during and after the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971. The chapters investigate questions of belonging and being an “alien”, civil rights and ethnic demands, and broader issues of citizenship and statelessness. The analysis centres around the situation of those who crossed into the Indian side of the border during the Liberation War, the Bengali speaking... Read more

List of tables vii

List of contributors viii

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction x

PART I

The Liberation War, Refugees and Citizenship in India 1

1 ‘Illegal’ Migrants in Assam and West Bengal: The Socio-Politics of NRC and CAA 3

DHIMOYEE BANERJEE AND AMIT RANJAN

2 Immigrants, Evacuees or Citizens—1971 Migrants in Search of Identity 24

SUBHASRI GHOSH

PART II

The Significance of 1971 in Bangladesh: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives 49

3 Biharis in Bangladesh: Organized Elimination and Marginalization of a Community 51

TAJ HASHMI

4 Women in War Zones: Rape at the time of Bangladesh Liberation War 73

AMIT RANJAN

5 Nation-Building Policies and Ethnic Conflict in Bangladesh 95

ANURUG CHAKMA AND KISHA CHAKMA

6 Neoliberal or Quasi-Colonial: A Critique on Higher Education in Contemporary Bangladesh 114

M. MUSTAHID HUSAIN

PART III

Nationality and Identity of the Stranded Communities (Bengalis and Bihari) in Pakistan 129

7 What Does It Mean to Be a Bengali in Pakistan? 131

MAZHAR ABBAS, BILAL HASSAN AND SAMEE LASHARI

8 The Opposing Narratives on Repatriation, Resettlement, and Citizenship of Bihari Muslims in Pakistan after the 1971 War 145

SAEED AHMED RID AND MUHAMMAD QASIM SODHAR

9 The Liberation War of Bangladesh (1971) and Pakistani Media Narratives 160

FIRASAT JABEEN AND SALEEM ABBAS

Index

Biography

Amit Ranjan is a Research Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. His edited book Migration, Memories and the “Unfinished” Partition (2024) is published by Routledge.

Taj Hashmi is a retired Professor of History and Security Studies. He is the author of a number of books, including Pakistan as a Peasant Utopia (Routledge, 2019).

Mazhar Abbas is a Lecturer in History at Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan.

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