Sarmila Bose

Sarmila Bose (born July 4, 1959, Boston, Massachusetts) is a British academic and senior research associate at the Centre for International Studies at Oxford University. She is the author of the controversial book, Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War.

Bose was born into a leading Indian political family. She had her schooling in Modern High School, Kolkata. She received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College and master's and PhD from Harvard University in political economy. regime.

Family

Her parents were Sisir Kumar Bose, a pediatrician and Krishna Bose, professor of English, writer and politician. Her paternal grandfather Sarat Chandra Bose was a barrister and a nationalist leader of distinction. Her mother's two uncles were writer Nirad Chaudhuri and pioneer pediatrician K. C. Chaudhuri. Her two brothers are well-known academicians: Sugata Bose, a noted historian of South Asia and Indian Ocean history, is the Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History, and Sumantra Bose, professor of international and comparative politics at the London School of Economics.

Footnotes

• Anatomy of Violence by Sarmila Bose (old EPW link is dead)
• Nayanika Mookerjee responds to Sarmila Bose in EPW
• Daily Star

she is grand daughter of Subhash Chandra Bose indian nationalist leader and freedom fighter popularly known as netaji (younger brother of sarat chandra bose)

Further reading

• Brick Lane Circle Resource The Author's publications of the Bangladesh War of 1971, her critics and her responses to those critics.
• Sarmila Bose rewrites history of Bangladesh
• Naeem Mohaimen critiques Dead Reckoning in EPW
• Gita Saghal critiques Dead Reckoning in The Daily Star
• The truth about the Jessore massacre by Sarmila Bose in The Telegraph, Calcutta, 19 March 2006
• Nayanika Mookerjee responds to Sarmila Bose in EPW
• This account of the Bangladesh war should not be seen as unbiased