Borders & boundaries : women in India's Partition / Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin.
As an event of shattering consequence, the Partition of India remains significant today. While Partition sounds smooth on paper, the reality was horrific. More than eight million people migrated and one million died in the process. The forced migration, violence between Hindus and Muslims, and mass...
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
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1998.
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Table of Contents:
- Speaking for Themselves: Partition History, Women's Histories
- Honourably Dead: Permissible Violence Against Women
- Borders and Bodies: Recovering Women in the Interest of the Nation
- A Community of Widows: Missing Citizens
- Picking up the Pieces: Women Rehabilitate Women
- Learning to Survive: Two Lives, Two Destinies
- Belonging: Women and Their Nations.