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Calcutta's failure to insulate itself from the communal hysteria that plagued the length and breadth of India in the aftermath of the demolition of Babri Masjid on 6 December 1992 came as a rude shock to the city's intelligentsia. True, the Great Calcutta Killing of August 1946 had initiated a vicious circle of communal rioting in the subcontinent climaxing in the 'truncated settlement' of 15 August 1947. The events of 1946–47 were viewed by left-wing intellectuals as a defeat of radicalism in post-Second World War Bengal politics. But the structural disarticulation between class and politics experienced during these Partition days was rapidly bridged in the western half of British Bengal that came to form a part of the Indian union. While other regions of India continued to be struck by periodic bouts of Hindu–Muslim violence, West Bengal remained relatively free of the communal virus. Calcutta, its capital city, emerged as the crucible of the country's left and democratic politics.

This research delineates the conditions more conducive to the use of female suicide bombings through a detailed analysis of attacks carried out by Boko Haram. Using a novel dataset of 473 suicide attacks, the study finds that females are more likely to be deployed against non-religious civilian targets. Further, fragmentation of the group increases the likelihood of more female suicide bombers as different factions seek to outbid one another. Third, the expectation of extensive and favorable coverage in non-local (Western) media sources increases the odds of female suicide attacks.