SexViolHist Bib: Cases: Real Cases: Partition of India

»The partition of India in 1947 was the division of British India into two independent dominion states, the Union of India and Dominion of Pakistan. The Union of India is today the Republic of India, and the Dominion of Pakistan is the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People's Republic of Bangladesh. The partition involved the division of two provinces, Bengal and the Punjab, based on district-wise non-Muslim (mostly Hindu and Sikh) or Muslim majorities. It also involved the division of the British Indian Army, the Royal Indian Navy, the Indian Civil Service, the railways, and the central treasury, between the two new dominions. The partition was set forth in the Indian Independence Act 1947 and resulted in the dissolution of the British Raj, or Crown rule in India. The two self-governing countries of India and Pakistan legally came into existence at midnight on 14–15 August 1947.
The partition displaced between 12 and 20 million people along religious lines, creating overwhelming refugee crises associated with the mass migration and population transfer that occurred across the newly constituted dominions; there was large-scale violence, with estimates of loss of life accompanying or preceding the partition disputed and varying between several hundred thousand and two million. The violent nature of the partition created an atmosphere of hostility and suspicion between India and Pakistan that plagues their relationship to the present.« (Extract from: Wikipedia)

G e n e r a l K e y w or d s

I. Chronological Index: Modern History: 20^th Century

II. Geographical Index: Asian History: Indian History, Pakistani History

III: Topical Index: Types: General: Rape

B i b l i o g r a p h y

Representations: Films: Earth, Khamosh Pani, Train to Pakistan; Literary Texts: Lalithambika Antharjanam, Manik Bandopadhyay, Saadat Hasan Manto, Amrita Pritam, Bhisham Sahni, Bapsi Sidhwa, Khushwant Singh, Yashpal

I. Author Index

[Info] Cavenaghi, Piera. »Lasciar parlare il silenzio. La Partition del subcontinente indiano e le abducted women.« Diacronie No. 8 (2011).

[Info] Choudhry, Monika, et al. »Violence Against Women In Four Seminal Narratives During The Partition Of India.« International Refereed Journal of Reviews and Research 13 (2025): 27-37.

[Info] Dey, Arunima. »Gendering Migration and Violence: Women and the Partition of India.« Oceánide No. 11 (2019).

[Info] Fatima, Taqdees, et al. »The Price Paid by Women: Gendered Violence and Subaltern Women depicted in The Other side of Silence by Urvashi Butalia.« International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 8 (2023): 277-281.

[Info] Joshi, Saumyata. »I am also a We: Archiving the Women's Silence in Partition and Holocaust Narratives.« International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences 5 (2020): 1303-1306.

[Info] Mondal, Lily. »The Other Side of Silence by Urvashi Butalia: A Representation of Women's Voices during Partition.« Journal of the Department of English 14 (2021): 145-150.

II. Speaker Index

[Info] Shrivastava, Nidhi. »Mass Rapes during the 1947 Partition and its Representation or Silencing in Hindi Cinema.« 51^st Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Boston 2020.