Sarmila Bose

Sarmila Bose is an American journalist and academic of Indian origin. She is currently a senior research associate at the Centre for International Studies in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War, a controversial book on the study of the Bangladesh Liberation War, which she describes as a "myth-busting" book.

The grandniece of Indian nationalist Subhas Chandra Bose and granddaughter of nationalist Sarat Chandra Bose, Bose is the daughter of former Trinamool Congress parliamentarian Krishna Bose and paediatrician Sisir Kumar Bose. Bose's brother, Sumantra Bose, teaches at the London School of Economics. Her brother Sugata Bose is a member of Indian parliament since 2014. She was born in Boston, but grew up in Calcutta, returning to the US for higher studies. She obtained a bachelor's degree in history from Bryn Mawr College, and a master's and doctorate from Harvard University in Political Economy and Government.

Sarmila Bose was a political journalist in India, working for Ananda Bazar Patrika. After her higher studies, she has held teaching and research positions at Harvard University, Warwick University, George Washington University, Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Oxford University.

She is the author of the controversial book, Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War and of Money, Energy, and Welfare: the state and the household in India's rural electrification policy, published by Oxford University Press in 1993. Bose advocated for the sale of F-16 fighter aircraft to Pakistan, together with William Milam, the ex-US Ambassador to Pakistan, in 2005, in their article, The right stuff: F-16s to Pakistan is wise decision. Bose has been criticized for her analysis of the 1971 Bangladesh genocide in Economic & Political Weekly. She has responded to three of her most notable critics – Naeem Mohaiemen, Urvashi Butalia, and Srinath Raghavan – in the same publication.

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