On 15th August 1947 India attained independence from the two hundred years of British rule, but, witnessed its secondly, partition into present-day Pakistan and subsequently Bangladesh. The date, 15th August, is chiefly remembered as the victory from colonial domination achieved through non-violence. Concurrently, its bemoaned for partition the narratives which are limited to national leaders, political causes and high politics dominated by the upper-class male perspective leaders. However, Indian feminist scholarships have argued that this recollection has disregarded the gendered understanding of wide spread communal violence – the story of displacement and dispossession and, the process of realignment of family, community and national identities. Women survivors of partitioned India occupied a distinctly marginalised space in the partition violence. They were not only subjected to barbarity from men of the ‘other’ community but also from their family members and community which began in the pre-partition period (before 1947), and carried on until the 1950s. The ‘other’ here refers to ‘enemy community’ who were not part of the dominant ethnic community of India or then West Pakistan or Pakistan.
On 15th August 1947 India attained independence from the two hundred years of British
rule
,
but
, witnessed its
secondly
, partition into present-day Pakistan and
subsequently
Bangladesh. The date, 15th August, is
chiefly
remembered as the victory from colonial domination achieved through non-violence.
Concurrently
, its bemoaned for partition the narratives which
are limited
to national leaders, political causes and high politics dominated by the upper-
class
male perspective leaders.
However
, Indian feminist scholarships have argued that this recollection has disregarded the gendered understanding of wide spread communal violence
–
the story of displacement and dispossession and, the process of realignment of family,
community
and national identities. Women survivors of partitioned India occupied a
distinctly
marginalised
space in the partition violence. They were not
only
subjected to barbarity from
men
of the ‘other’
community
but
also
from their family members and
community
which began in the
pre-partition
period (
before
1947), and carried on until the 1950s. The ‘other’ here refers to ‘enemy
community’
who were not part of the dominant ethnic
community
of India or then West Pakistan or Pakistan.
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