Bangladesh War

The events of 1971 remain the defining episode of Bangladesh's modern history, and this title sits within the literature written about that year. Works on the subject generally move across the political breakdown that preceded the fighting, the course of the conflict itself, the scale of displacement and loss, and the settlement that followed. Readers come to this material for different reasons, some tracing family history and others studying how the state was formed, and a volume of this kind serves as one account among many rather than a final word. Notes for the shelf: • Subject matter centred on the 1971 conflict and its aftermath • Belongs to the wider historical literature on the country's founding • Relevant to students of South Asian politics and modern history • Approached by most readers as history rather than light reading Appropriate for history students, general readers and anyone assembling a collection on the region's twentieth century. Listed at Boipoka.