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- Title
Muslim Women and the Partition of India: A Historiographical Silence.
- Authors
Umar Ali, Rabia
- Abstract
The paper seeks to underscore a major lacuna in the studies so far undertaken on the most momentous development in the twentieth century history of the subcontinent - its partition into the states of India and Pakistan. The partition has been studied by numerous scholars who approached the subject from different perspectives, analyzing it with the help of different analytical lenses and coming up with a variety of conclusions. The one dimension that has, however, so far failed to elicit sufficient attention is the dimension of women's sufferings that accompanied the event. The article stresses this gap in the partition scholarship and pleads that it be filled.
- Subjects
PUNJAB (India); INDIA; PAKISTAN; MUSLIM women; PARTITION of India, 1947; PAKISTANI history; FEMINIST historiography; SOCIAL history; CRIMES against women
- Publication
Islamic Studies, 2009, Vol 48, Issue 3, p425
- ISSN
0578-8072
- Publication type
Article