Dead reckoning : memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War

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Introduction: Memories in conflict

Call to arms : Bengali nationalist rebellion

Military inaction : power without responsibility

Military action : "Operation Searchlight" in Dhaka

Uncivil war : mobs, mutinies, and madness

Village of widows : "securing" the countryside

Hounding of Hindus : the politics of minority persecution

Hit and run : sabotage and retribution

Fratricide : death squads at war's end

Words and numbers : memories and monstrous fables

Appendix 1: Bibliographical note

Appendix 2: List of interviewees