Borders and Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition
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Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
ISBN
8186706003
Length
xiii+274p., 23cm.
Subjects
In 1947 India was simultaneously freed--and divided. The departure of the British was accompanied by a bloody partition in which one million people perished and over ten million were displaced in the largest peace-time mass migration this century has recorded. Borders and Boundaries attempts a feminist reading of partition providing, for the first time, testimonies and memories of women caught in the turmoil of the time. The authors make women not only visible, ...
