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gave the book a negative review, writing that "Priyajit Debsarkar has neither the dramatic flourish and skill that is needed to tell the story of a gambler who gave away a winning hand, nor the training and depth of understanding that writing the history of a nation’s birth requires. The result is an
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entry on that topic), a 35-odd page list of references and bibliography, unusual for a book that has only 160-odd pages in all, notwithstanding. There is no evidence that anyone in Pakistan, Bangladesh or India was interviewed, surprising for a commentary on a man who was alive only three years
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ago.". An unnecessary subject on which this book is written, the facts and figures are at times fictitious. An irrelevant book written about The Raja; who is a born leader and had been patriarch of a 3000 years old royal household.
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The book is about Roy's decision to remain loyal to Pakistan while examining the unfavorable relations between West and East Pakistan at the advent of the
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amateur yarn that seems to be based entirely on secondary sources (the famous story of the
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and several regimes in Pakistan awarded him with ambassadorial positions.
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is a biography written about one of the last kings of
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Bangladesh Liberation War
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Agartala Conspiracy Case
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