It is  possible that Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War by Sarmila Bose is the definitive impartial account of Bangladesh's liberation war that the author smugly claims it to be. But if her previous scholarship on 1971 is anything to go by, I wouldn't count on it.  The reason that I doubt her grandiose and self-satisfied claim is that her previously published work on 1971 is replete with shoddy research and riddled with bias. Indeed, her arguments in her two articles published in Economic and  Political Weekly (EPW) on …