Sarmila Bose
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Sarmila Bose (born July 4, 1959 Boston, USA) o to 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 and they have three sons.
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. She is controversial for her writing on the 1971 Pakistani Civil War, suggesting that the casualties and rape allegations in the Pakistani Civil 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]
Bose has been appointed Director of the newly-opened Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.
[edit] 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[1]
[edit] 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
