Sarmila Bose

Sarmila Bose (born July 41959, Boston, USA) was appointed Director of the newly-opened Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University in 2006, a position she relinquished in 2008 to become a senior researcher in the Department of Politics at Oxford.

She is controversial for her writing on the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, suggesting that the casualties and rape allegations in the Bangladesh Liberation War were greatly exaggerated for political purposes.U.S Department of State [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/46059.htm South Asia in Crisis: United States Policy, 1961-1972 June 28-29, 2005, Loy Henderson Auditorium, Tentative Program] ] [ [http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2005&leaf=10&filename=9223&filetype=html 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] . Her views have been criticized strongly in Bangladesh and her research methods have been attacked as shoddy and biased. [ [http://drishtipat.org/sarmila/sarmila.htm 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]

She had her schooling in Modern High, Kolkata; she received her A.B. from Bryn Mawr College and masters and PhD from Harvard University in political economy. She is also a singer.

Family

Her parents were Sisir Kumar Bose, a pediatrician and Krishna Bose, professor of English, writer and politician. Her paternal grandfather Sarat Chandra Bose was a barrister and a nationalist leader of distinction. Her mother's two uncles were Nirad Chaudhuri, the writer and critic and K. C. Chaudhuri, the pioneer pediatrician.

She is married to Alan Rosling [http://www.tata.com/0_about_us/management/alan_rosling.htm] , a British man. Alan Rosling is an executive director of Tata Sons. He is a member of the Tata Group Corporate Centre and is responsible for the Group's drive to internationalise. He is also a director of Tata AutoComp Systems and Tata International.They have three sons [http://tata.com/0_media/features/interviews/20040807_alan_rosling.htm] Fact|date=October 2007.

Footnotes

*http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2005&leaf=10&filename=9223&filetype=htmlAnatomy of Violence by Sarmila Bose

*Nayanika Mookherherjee responds to Sarmila Bose in EPW [http://www.epw.org.in/articles/2006/09/10535.pdf#search=%22nayanika%20mookherjee%20epw%22] Daily Star [http://www.thedailystar.net/forum/2006/december/skewing.htm]

Further reading

* [http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060319/asp/look/story_5969733.asp The truth about the Jessore massacre] by Sarmila Bose in The Telegraph, Calcutta, 19 March 2006
* [http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_2-7-2005_pg3_1 New impartial evidence debunks 1971 rape allegations against Pakistan Army, Daily Times Editorial, July 2, 2005]