![]() ![]() ![]() In Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh, survivors tell their stories, revealing the power of speaking that deemed unspeakable. Pakistani and Indian soldiers and Bengali militiamen raped and tortured women on a mass scale. None of these nationalist histories convey the human cost of the war. If the war is acknowledged in Pakistan, it is cast as an act of betrayal by the Bengalis. ![]() For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation.
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