The Year 1971 Exists Everywhere in Bangladeshon Its Roads, in Sculptures, in Its Museums and Oral History Projects, in Its Curriculum, in Peoples Homes and Their Stories, and in Political Discourse. It Marks The Birth of The Nation, Its Liberation. More Than 1000 Miles Away, in Pakistan Too, 1971 Marks A Watershed Moment, Its Memories Sitting Uncomfortably in Public Imagination. It is Remembered As The Fall of Dacca, The Dismemberment of Pakistan Or The Third indopak War. in India, 1971 Represents Something Elsethe Story of Humanitarian intervention, of Triumph and Valour That Paved The Way for Indias Rise As A Military Power, The Beginning of Its Journey To Becoming A Regional Superpower. navigating The Widely Varied Terrain That is 1971 Across Pakistan, Bangladesh and India, anam Zakaria Sifts Through Three Distinct State Narratives, and Studies The institutionalization of The Memory of The Year and Its Events. Through A Personal Journey, She Juxtaposes State Narratives With Peoples History On The Ground, Bringing forth The Nuanced Experiences of Those Who Lived Through The War. Using intergenerational interviews, Textbook analyses, Visits To Schools and Travels To Museums and Sites Commemorating 1971, Zakaria Explores The Ways in Which 1971 is Remembered and forgotten Across Countries, Generations and Communities. Product Description review narratives and Their analysis in The Backdrop of History form The Scaffold of Zakarias Research Enterprise. She is Eclectic in Selecting The Respondents. Thus We Have Bengali Muslims and Hindus From Bangladesh, A Punjabi Tea Plantation Manager Who Adopted A Christian Name To Make A Clean Escape, Bengali informants From India and Pakistan, Punjabis in Pakistan Who Served in former East Pakistan, Biharis Stranded in Bangladesh. This involves Deep Conversation With Them On Subjects As Varied As Livelihood, Experience, Loss of Friends and Members of Family, Prejudices and Stereotypes, Politics, Nationhood and National Identity. Tanweer Fazal Biblio A Review of Books Published On 20200401 zakaria Goes Beyond The Politics Over The 1971 War in All Three Countries, Whether It is Silence Pakistan, A Sense of Triumph India Or A Yardstick for Nationalism Bangladesh. She Pits The Peoples History Against The official History That Mostly Becomes A Victim of Politics and State Agenda, Especially in Thirdworld Countries Where The Truth often Lies Buried To Show How People Remember The Conflict and How States influence What People Remember. Irfan Aslam Dawn Published On 20200105 zakarias Work Recognises The Limitations involved in Relying On Memories To Understand Historical Truths and Uses Them To Its Advantage. At Its Core, 1971 Begins With The Premise That There is No Allembracing Homogenous Narrative On The Events That Led To The Creation of Bangladesh. Therefore, The War Memories Presented in The Book May Provide A Single Strand of A Complex, Multifaceted History. Taha Kehar The News Published On 20200202 in Many Ways, Zakarias Book is an Important Act of Solidarity On The Part of A Pakistani. for Many Years Bangladeshis Have Been Demanding That Pakistan Should formally Apologise for The Atrocities of 1971 But Such Apologies Are Not Easily Given, Particularly Not By States. Citizens, However, Have That Option. Many Years Ago, in A Womens Meeting in Lahore, Pakistani Womens Groups Exercised This Option When, Over A Day of Moving Music and intense Conversation, They offered A formal Apology To Their Bangladeshi Sisters. Zakarias Book Follows This Distinguished Heritage. Urvashi Butalia The Hindu Published On 20200517 zakaria is A Fine Ambassador of Pakistani Liberalismsceptical, Defying Norms, Polite, A Listener Full of Empathy. Salil Tripathi Mint Published On 20200222 this is an Important Book That Looks At The Diverse and Conflicting Ways in Which The Making of Bangladesh is Remembered in Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. The Book Argues, Persuasively and Convincingly, That Memory and Amnesia Have Been More of A Project Rather Than Natural and Organic Processes. Salil Misra The Telegraph Published On 20200403 official Narratives in Pakistan. Tend To Blame The Hindu Culture of Bangladesh, and The Indian interference for The War. Ms Zakaria Challenges Such Narratives, But Also Reveals How These Have infiltrated Personal Memories. Uttaran Das Gupta Business Standard Published On 20200701 about The Author anam Zakaria is an Oral Historian and The Author of Between The Great Divide A Journey into Pakistanadministered Kashmir and The Footprints of Partition Narratives of Four Generations of Pakistanis and Indians, Which Won Her The 2017 Klf German Peace Prize. She Works As A Development Professional and Cultural Facilitator, and Writes Frequently On issues of Conflict and Peace in South Asia. Her Work Has Appeared in Dawn, Wire, Scroll and Al Jazeera. Born and Raised in Lahore, anam Currently Lives in Toronto. 1971 is Her Third Book.