Nationbuilding, gender and war crimes in South Asia
By: Bina D'Costa.
Series: Routledge contemporary South Asia series -- v.29
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415565660; 9780203850015
Subjects: Nation-building -- South Asia; Nationalism -- South Asia; War crimes -- South Asia; Sex role -- Political aspects -- South Asia; India-Pakistan Conflict, 1971; India -- History -- Partition, 1947; Bangladesh -- History -- Revolution, 1971
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The politics of nationalism and nationbuilding; title: 1947: from partition to creation; title: 1971: politics of silence, or refusal to remember?; title: Gendered nationbuilding; title: Frozen in time? war crimes, justice and political forgiveness; title: Partnership with transnational networks for gender-sensitive justice mechanism.