Bellingham Review Contributor
Sohana Manzoor is a Bangladeshi writer and academic, and the editor of Our Many Longings: Contemporary Short Fiction from Bangladesh. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies in South and Southeast Asia, and received a special mention in the Best Asian Short Stories 2020. She holds a PhD in English from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and teaches English and creative writing at the University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.
After the battle was won and lost, after the victors had plundered the Nawab’s palace in Murshidabad, Amina Begum, the mother of the fallen Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah, and her older sister Meharunnisa Begum were exiled…