Paper Key : IRJ************138
Author: Ankur Chawla
Date Published: 20 Nov 2024
Abstract
During the communal violence of Indias partition, the assault on a womans body was perceived as an attack on the honour of the community to which she belonged.Throughout the communal frenzy of Indias 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 dominated the sanity of conflicting men of two communities, women of the rival community became the worst victims. Womens 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 was 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 Bhasins Borders and Boundaries: Women in Indias Partition.
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