Sarmila Bose
Sarmila Bose (born July 41959, Boston, USA) has been appointed Director of the newly-opened Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.
She is controversial for her writing on the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, suggesting that the casualties and rape allegations in the Bangladesh Liberation War were greatly exaggerated for political purposes.[1][2]. Her views have been critised strongly in Bangladesh and her research methods have been attacked as shoddy and biased.[3] <ref>[1]<ref>
She had her schooling in Modern High, Kolkata; she received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College and masters and PhD from Harvard University in political economy. She is also a singer.
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 Nirad Chaudhuri, the writer and critic and K. C. Chaudhuri, the pioneer pediatrician.
She is married to Alan Rosling, an American. They have three sons.
Footnotes
- ^ U.S Department of State South Asia in Crisis: United States Policy, 1961-1972 June 28-29, 2005, Loy Henderson Auditorium, Tentative Program
- ^ Anatomy of Violence: Analysis of Civil War in East Pakistan in 1971 by Sarmila Bose in the Indian Journal, Economic and Political Weekly, October 8, 2005
- ^ In this website, we tried to collate information concerning this paper including Sarmila Bose’s original paper, relevant Bangla articles and rebuttals of Bose’s paper on the Drishtipat web site. Drishtipatis a non-profit, non-political expatriate Bangladeshi organization
Anatomy of Violence by Sarmila Bose
- Nayanika Mookherherjee responds to Sarmila Bose in EPW[2]
Daily Star [3]
Further reading
- The truth about the Jessore massacre by Sarmila Bose in The Telegraph, Calcutta, 19 March 2006
- New impartial evidence debunks 1971 rape allegations against Pakistan Army, Daily Times Editorial, July 2, 2005