Abstract
Muktijuddho, or the Liberation War of Bangladesh, was a nine-month-long war between East Pakistan and West Pakistan. The war officially started on March 26, 1971, and ended on December 16, 1971, with Bangladesh, former East Pakistan, emerging as an independent nation. The Liberation War occurred because of cultural, linguistic, and political disparities between the eastern and western parts of Pakistan. The state’s use of the word birangona to implement the erasure of women’s past is disrupted at the social level through the public usage of a pejorative concept, barangona. In Bengali, notes Bina D’Costa, ‘a term phonetically similar to ‘Birangona’ – barangona – means a prostitute or a loose woman, and has been used in some instances to mock the survivors’. Numerous survivors, on the other hand, debunk the social and national meanings of birangona.
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