General studies of Bangladesh include B. L. C. Johnson's Bangladesh (1982), Charles P. O'Donnell's Bangladesh: Biography of a Muslim Nation (1984), Marcus Franda's Bangladesh: The First Decade (1981), and Craig Baxter's Bangladesh: A New Nation in an Old Setting (1984). For the role of religion in the social unrest of Bangladesh, consult Jeremy Seabrook's Freedom Unfinished: Fundamentalism and Popular Resistance in Bangladesh Today (2001). The country's political history leading up to the civil war is chronicled in K. M. Safiullah's Bangladesh at War (1995), Subrata R. Chowdhury's The Genesis of Bangladesh: A Study in International Legal Norms and Permissive Conscience (1972), Richard Sisson and Leo Rose's War and Secession: Pakistan, India, and the Creation of Bangladesh (1991), Matiur Rahman and Naeem Hasan's Iron Bars of Freedom (1980), and Anthony Mascarenhas's Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood (1986). For general background information, consult South Asia—Nepal, Bangladesh, and Bhutan: A Global Studies Handbook (2002) by Nanda R. Shrestha and Bimal K. Paul.
Events of the 1971 civil war and their immediate aftermath are narrated in Siddiq Salik's Witness to Surrender (1997), G. W. Chowdhury's The Last Days of United Pakistan (1974), J. F. R. Jacob's Surrender at Dacca: Birth of a Nation (1997), Herbert Feldman's The End and the Beginning: Pakistan, 1969-1971 (1975), Lawrence Lifschultz's Bangladesh: The Unfinished Revolution (1979), Talukder Maniruzzaman's The Bangladesh Revolution and Its Aftermath (1980), and A. B. M. Shamsul Islam's Bibliography on Population, Health, and Development in Bangladesh (1986). Another notable text proposing a slightly different viewpoint of the war is Jahanara Imam's Of Blood and Fire: The Untold Story of Bangladesh's War of Independence (1991; originally published in 1986 under the title The Days of'71).
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