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My people, uprooted, describing the exodus of Hindus from East Pakistan and Bangladesh, strangely enough, is one of the very few documentations in English on the subject. Why it is so has been dealt with at length in the book. It was first published in 2001 and won both acclaim and brickbats-the latter from left Nehruvian secularists who believed that this story of human suffering had better be kept under wraps. A subsequent edition was published under the title A Suppressed chapter in History, but in this edition the author has chosen to revert to the earlier titl

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. The background: pre-partition Bengali society. 2. The countdown: Bengal between the two partitions, 1905-1947. 3. The three horrors of the forties: famine, Calcutta and Noakhali. 4. Partition, at last. 5. 1947-49: the push begins, not so gently. 6. Push comes to shove: the bloody pogrom of 1950. 7. The Nehru liaquat pact and other whitewashing jobs. 8. The steady, ungentle squeeze, 1950-1964. 9. Hazratbal and thereafter, 1964-1971. 10. The gory climax: the holocaust of 1971. 11. Blowing hot and cold: Hindus in Bangladesh, 1971-2001. 12. New Millenium, new torment: the bloody pogrom of 2001 onwards. 13. An eerie silence, more whitewashing and the meaning of the word secular. 14. A very brief digression on Gujarat and Kashmir. 15. Now what? Appendices. Bibliography.