This book gives a detailed political analysis of nationbuilding
processes and how these are closely linked to statebuilding and to
issues of war crime, gender and sexuality, and marginalization of
minority groups.
With a focus on the Indian subcontinent, the author demonstrates
how the state itself is involved in the construction of a gendered
identity, and how control of women and their sexuality is central
to the nationbuilding project. She applies a critical feminist
approach to two major conflicts in the Indian subcontinent - the
Partition of India in 1947 and the Liberation War of Bangladesh in
1971 - and offers suggestions for addressing historical injustices
and war crimes in the context of modern Bangladesh. Addressing how
the social and political elites were able to construct and
legitimize a history of the state that ignored these issues, the
author suggests a critical re-examination of the national narrative
of the creation of Bangladesh which takes into account the rise of
Islamic rights and their alleged involvement in war crimes.
Looking at the impact that notions of nation-state and
nationalism have on women from a critical feminist perspective, the
book will be an important addition to the literature on gender
studies, international relations and South Asian politics.
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