The Other Side of Silence - Voices from the Partition of India

"Selective amnesia and memory are at the root of the relationship between human beings and their history. This book pierces that amnesia, elicits buried memories, and lays the foundations for a more evolved relationship between human beings on this subcontinent and their histories of gendered and communal violence."--Kavita Punjabi, "Telegraph" (Calcutta)

List of contents

Acknowledgments ix

1. Beginnings 1

2. Blood 21

3. 'Facts' 53

4. Women 85

5. 'Honour' 137

6. Children 195

7. 'Margins' 233

8. Memory 273

Glossary 295

Index 301

About the author

Urvashi Butalia is Director and Cofounder of Kali for Women, India’s first feminist publishing house. An active participant in India’s women’s movement for more than two decades, she holds the position of Reader at the College of Vocational Studies at the University of Delhi.

Summary

A history of Partition--the separation of India and Pakistan in 1947--from a personal and feminist perspective.

Product details

• Authors: Butalia, Urvashi Butalia, Urvashi Butalia
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.06.2000
• EAN: 9780822324577
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-2457-7
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 239 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 721 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Indien, Literarische Essays, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit, Postkolonialismus