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Professor Nayanika Mookherjee's Outputs (3)

Birangona: towards ethical testimonies of sexual violence during conflict (2019)
Book
Mookherjee, N., & Keya, N. (2019). Birangona: towards ethical testimonies of sexual violence during conflict. Durham University. https://doi.org/10.15128/r1sb3978287

Labonno/Labony needs to do a school project on family memories of 1971, the Bangladesh War. When coming to ask her grandmother, she wakes the latter from one of her frequent nightmares. What follows is her grandmother’s (Nanu/Rehana) narration of the... Read More about Birangona: towards ethical testimonies of sexual violence during conflict.

1971: Pakistan's Past and Knowing What Not to Narrate (2019)
Journal Article
Mookherjee, N. (2019). 1971: Pakistan's Past and Knowing What Not to Narrate. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 39(1), 212-222. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-7493909

The formation of Bangladesh in 1971 coincided with the death of three million people and rape of two hundred thousand women (according to official and contested figures) by the West Pakistani army and local East Pakistani collaborators. Yet 1971 rare... Read More about 1971: Pakistan's Past and Knowing What Not to Narrate.