Of the Nation Born – The Bangladesh Papers

The first volume to come out of a South Asia wide research project entitled Sexual Violence and Impunity (supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada), this book focuses on Bangladesh and showcases some of the best writings on the subject. Contributors include new and established scholars who look at areas as wide-ranging as the law and its histories, nationalism, memory and sexuality, the status of minorities, religion and its directives, universities as sites of gender-contestation and more. A comprehensive overview of the situation in Bangladesh since the 1971 war of liberation, written by acclaimed scholar Meghna Guhathakurta provides an entry point to help the reader understand the complex realities of the ways in which impunity for sexual violence has come to acquire so much resilience in Bangladesh in particular, and South Asia in general.