A Golden Age

This thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MA in English Language and Literature of East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.The paper tries to understand Tahmima Anam’s project of writing history of the Liberation War of 1971. Based on E.H. Carr’s idea of history, I have tried to explain the selective and interpretive mode of Anam’s subjective historiography. In particular, I am interested to understand how her writing is different from objective news reporting on liberation war and subjective and overtly passionate war literature. I shall argue that as a post-war generation writer, Anam has tried to pursue a moderate middle path in order to avoid many historical controversies