Buch
Monografie
The other side of silence : voices from the partition of India
Verfasst von:
Butalia, Urvashi
Durham:
Duke Univ. Press
,
2000
,
308 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Butalia, Urvashi |
| Jahr: | 2000 |
| ISBN: | 0822324946 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| The partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, caused one of the most massive human convulsions in history. Within the space of two months in 1947 more than twelve million people were displaced. A million died. More than seventy-five thousand women were abducted and raped. Countless children disappeared. Homes, villages, communities, families, and relationships were destroyed. In "The Other Side of Silence," Urvashi Butalia places people-their individual experiences, their private pain-at the center of this epochal event. Through interviews conducted over a ten-year period and an examination of diaries, letters, memoirs, and parliamentary documents, Butalia asks how people on the margins of history-children, women, ordinary people, the lower castes, the untouchables-have been affected by this upheaval. Butalia reflects on difficult questions: what did community, caste, and gender have to do with the violence that accompanied partition? What was partition meant to achieve and what did it actually achieve? How, through unspeakable horrors, did the survivors go on? Believing that only by remembering and telling their stories can those affected begin the process of healing and forgetting, Butalia presents a sensitive and moving account of her quest to hear the painful truth behind the silence. | |
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