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, ...
Witness to Freedom: How Women Experienced the Partition of India
