Authors:
- Monika Choudhry: -

- Saroj Bala, Department of Humanities, Delhi Technological University - Google Scholar, ResearchGate

Abstract: »“She paid her respects to holy book ……… doused her body in kerosene and set herself on fire.” (A recount of Veeravali who lived in Pakistan’ Punjab province) The Partition of India in 1947 was not only a historical-political rupture but also a gendered catastrophe. While historical records document mass violence, literary texts uniquely convey the intimate, psychological, and corporeal impacts on women. Anuanced understanding of gender based reading of partition genocide demonstrates the violence in its ghastly entirety and how women were transformed into mute objects stripped of individual dignity, autonomy, voice and control of their lives and bodies. The carnage left a trail of arson, loot, massacres, mutilation, severed bodies, forced conversions, savage sexual violations, mass abductions, disfigured individuals and scarred souls. The brutalities witnessed pregnant women’ wombs extracted out, breasts cut off, genitaliainscribed with religious symbols,babies hacked out of their bellies, infants roasted on spits. It was a cataclysm of violence, bloodshed, nation acting as a slaughterhouse. By 1948, great migration left 15 million homeless and uprooted ,2 million were annihilated. The unexpected ferocity of bloodshed defined partition as a messy, macabre imperial legacy that envisages colonial leftovers in South Asia.« (Source: International Refereed Journal of Reviews and Research)

Contents:

	Abstract (p. 27)
	Introduction (p. 28)
	Hypotheses (p. 29)
	Methodology (p. 29)
	Objectives (p. 29)
	Research Questions (p. 30)
	Significance of the Study (p. 30)
	Limitations of the Study (p. 30)
	Comparison of Four Narratives (p. 31)
	Common Threads Across Texts Mottled Dawn, Cracking India ,Tamas and The Other Side of Silence (p. 33)
	Bibliography (p. 33)

Wikipedia: History of Asia: History of India and History of Pakistan / Partition of India | Literature: Indian literature / Bhisham Sahni | Literature: Pakistiani literature / Saadat Hasan Manto, Bapsi Sidhwa | Literature: Artistic depictions of the Partition of India / Cracking India | Sex and the law: Rape / Violence against women during the Partition of India | Writing: Indian writers / Urvashi Butalia