Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1 - Background : Pre-Partition Bengali Society
Chapter 2 - The Countdown : Politics of Bengal between two partitions, 1905-1947
Chapter 3 - The Three Horrors of the Forties
Chapter 4 - Partition, at last
Chapter 5 - The Push Begins, gently : 1947-1950
Chapter 6 - Push comes to Shove : The killings of 1950 and the Nehru-Liaquat Pact
Chapter 7 - The Steady, Ungentle Squeeze, 1950-71
Chapter 8 - The Gory Climax : The Holocaust of 1971
Chapter 9 - Blowing Hot and Cold : Hindus in the Bangladesh Era
Chapter 10 - The Eerie Silence : The Meaning of the Word 'Secular'
Chapter 11 - Now What?
Illustrations
Appendix 1 - Jogendra Nath Mandal's Resignation Letter to Liaquat Ali Khan
Acknowledgements
Appendix 2 - List of Persons Interviewed
Addendum