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The Anguish and Misery of Displacement and Uprooting in Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin’s Borders and Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition

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Dr. Vijay Bhushan
» doi: 10.31838/ecb/2023.12.s1.076

Abstract

During times of communal violence, the assault on the body of women signifies as the assault on the honour of the community from which women belong to. Throughout the communal frenzy of India’s Partition, the act of molestation of women was committed as if it were a weapon in humiliating the rival community. The brutal act of abduction of women and young girls of the opposite community and their forced conversion was treated as an attainment of high order. When the passion of violence reigns the sanity of conflicting men of two communities, women of the rival community becomes the worst victims. Women’s mutilation, cutting off their breasts, and parading the forcefully naked women and young girls down the streets were such acts of insanity committed by those who were once friends and closely related neighbours . The brutality and barbarity meted out to thousands of women during the partition upheaval in 1947 is unprecedented. Thus an attempt has been put to unveil the reality of this anguish and misery of displacement and uprooting in Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin’s Borders and Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition.

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