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Revision as of 17:06, 28 October 2006 by Bakasuprman (talk | contribs) (→Footnotes: cats)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Sarmila Bose is a Harvard-educated Indian academic related to the Indian rebel Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. She has undertaken some major research projects on the 1971 Pakistani Civil War, suggesting that the casualties and rape allegations in the Pakistani Civil War have been greatly exaggerated for political purposes.
Her paper, "Anatomy of violence: An Analysis of Civil War in East Pakistan in 1971", was presented at the historian branch of the United States State Department two-day conference on U.S. policy in South Asia between 1961 and 1972, in late June 2005, and was later published in the Indian Journal, Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) in its issue of October 8, 2005. The paper is claimed to be an impartial account of some of the events in East Pakistan during the civil war, though she makes it clear that the findings of the paper should not be extrapolated too broadly at this point.
On the allegations of rape by Pakistani armed forces, Ms. Bose has said, 'No rape of women by Pakistan army found in the specific case studies: In all of the incidents involving the Pakistan army in the case studies, the armed forces were found not to have raped women. While this cannot be extrapolated beyond the few specific incidents in this study, it is significant, as in the popular narrative the allegation of rape is often clubbed together with allegation of killing. Rape allegations were made in prior verbal discussions in some cases and in a published work on one of the incidents. However, Bengali eyewitnesses, participants and survivors of the incidents testified to the violence and killings, but also testified that no rape had taken place in these cases. While rape is known to occur in all situations of war, charges and counter-charges on rape form a particularly contentious issue in this conflict.' Not surprisingly her work unleashed a barrage of criticism in Bangladesh and her research methods have been attacked as shoddy and biased.
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
She was born in Boston, USA on july 4, 1959 to Dr. Sisir Kumar Bose, a leading pediatrician and Prof. Krishna Bose , a professor of English, writer and politician.Both her paternal and maternal sides are illustrious. Her paternal grandfather Sarat Chandra Bose was a leading barrister and a nationalist leader of distinction. Her mother's two uncles were Nirad C Chaudhuri, the famous writer and critic and Dr. K C Chaudhuri, the pioneer pediatrician. She had her schooling in Modern High, Kolkata. She left for United States and received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College and masters and PhD from Harvard University in political economy. She is also an acclaimed singer. Bose has been appointed Director of the newly-opened Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. The Reuters Institute, established by the Department of Politics and International Relations and funded by the Reuters Foundation to act as a bridge between academia and journalism, is opening in autumn 2006.
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
http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2005&leaf=10&filename=9223&filetype=html Anatomy of Violence by Sarmila Bose
Nayanika Mookherherjee responds to Sarmila Bose in EPW
She is married to Alan Rosling, an american and a senior executive at Tata Group, Mumbai branch and have three sons.
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