Articles

• Bangladesh–India Relations: Strengthening Historical Ties

  Shamsher M. Chowdhury

  Bir Bikram

• Making of the Bangladesh State: Shaheed Dhirendranath Datta, Bengali Language Movement and Birth of a Nation

  Aroma Dutta

• Operation Kilo Flight: Night Attack By Otter Aircraft – A First-Hand Account

  Shamsul Alam

• The Saga of Sylhet

  Ian Cardozo

• My Days at the Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendro: The Radio Broadcasting Centre During Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971

  Nasreen Ahmad

• The Road to Victory Day 1971: An Insider’s Account

  Meghna Guhathakurta

• Interrogating the Spirit of 1971: Beyond Historicisms

  Lubna Marium

• Working with the Refugees, 1971

  Julian Francis

• 1971: Memories, Facts and Words Overheard

  Afsan Choudhury

• India–Bangladesh Ties: Half Century of Consolidation

  Pinak Ranjan Chakravarty

• Opportunity of the Century

  Mohammed Ayoob

• Bangladesh: A Half Century into Freedom

  Syed Badrul Ahsan

• Historicising the Birangona: Interrogating the Politics of Commemorating the Wartime Rape of 1971 in the Context of the 50th Anniversary of Bangladesh

  Nayanika Mookherjee

• Histories and Memories of the Liberation War: Saranarthis in Tripura

  Anindita Ghoshal

• Waging War Through Humour: Political Cartoons and the War of 1971 as Depicted in Calcutta-Based Print Media

  Urvi Mukhopadhyay

• The Liberation War of 1971 and India

  Smruti S. Pattanaik

Editorial

• Editor’s Note

  Amb. Sujan R. Chinoy

Introduction

• Guest Editor’s Introduction

  Alexander Lukin

From the Archives

• Speech of the Prime Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi at a Public Rally in Dacca, 17 March 1972

  Indira Gandhi

• We Don’t Know Defeat

  Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

• Interview: Liberation War Through the Cinematic Lens

  Tanvir Mokammel

Book Review

• From 7 March to Independence (Sat-e-March Theke Swadhinata) (In Bengali)

  Monirul Islam

  Rafiqul Islam

• Politico-Military Strategy of the Bangladesh Liberation War, 1971

  Vivek Chadha