Women and Partition: A Reader

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Description

Urvashi Butalia’s work with regards to Partition, the 1947 division of the Indian subcontinent, is the world over known. Her book The Other Side of Silence has been translated into more than ten languages and won a couple of awards. On this new collection, Butalia brings together writers from India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan to explore the still in large part unaddressed aspects of the human histories of the period. Women and Partition offers fresh perspectives, first person accounts, essays, personal histories, and interviews with women who lived through Partition and who have inherited its legacies.
Taking a broad sweep, the essays here not only span three countries but in addition cover a range of subject areas, from oral history to more traditional historical accounts, from visual history to a study of sports. Also included is a collection of documents, which give valuable archival material and add further depth to the volume. Contributors include well known novelists Bapsi Sidhwa, Shauna Singh Stanley Baldwin, Uzma Aslam Khan, and Kamila Shamsie; the artist Nilima Sheikh; and academics such as Kavita Panjabi, Jasodhara Bagchi, and Rita Kothari.


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