The other side of silence: voices from the partition of India
โ Scribed by Urvashi Butalia
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 326
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Acknowledgments (page ix)
1 BEGINNINGS (page 1)
2 BLOOD (page 21)
3 'FACTS' (page 53)
4 WOMEN (page 85)
5 'HONOUR' (page 137)
6 CHILDREN (page 195)
7 'MARGINS' (page 233)
8 MEMORY (page 273)
Glossary (page 295)
Index (page 301)
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
The Partition of India in 1947 caused one of the great human convulsions of history. The statistics are staggering. Twelve million people were displaced; a million died; seventy-five thousand women are said to have been abducted and raped; families were divided; properties lost; homes destroyed. In
The partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, caused one of the most massive human convulsions in history. Within the space of two months in 1947 more than twelve million people were displaced. A million died. More than seventy-five thousand women were abducted and raped. Countless