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Historicising the Birangona: Interrogating the Politics of Commemorating the Wartime Rape of 1971 in the context of the 50th Anniversary of Bangladesh

Mookherjee, N.

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Two decades ago, ‘1971’ was deemed to not have a market within Indian publishing houses and media outlets. Yet, one is struck by the contemporary Indian focus on the iconic figure of the Birangona – brave women, a title given by the State of Bangladesh to women raped by the Pakistani army and their Bengali and non-Bengali collaborators during the Bangladesh war of 1971. It is important to engage with the public memory of wartime sexual violence of 1971 beyond the horrific constructions of the Birangona and the potential for propaganda and geopolitical calculations that the narrative engenders for India.

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Mookherjee, N. (2022). Historicising the Birangona: Interrogating the Politics of Commemorating the Wartime Rape of 1971 in the context of the 50th Anniversary of Bangladesh. Strategic Analysis, 45(6), 588-597. https://doi.org/10.1080/09700161.2021.2009663

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Dec 16, 2021
Online Publication Date Feb 10, 2022
Publication Date 2022
Deposit Date Jan 6, 2022
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Strategic Analysis
Print ISSN 0970-0161
Electronic ISSN 1754-0054
Publisher Taylor and Francis Group
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 45
Issue 6
Pages 588-597
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/09700161.2021.2009663

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