The Other Side Of Silence
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The Other Side of Silence
The Partition of India in 1947 caused one of the most harrowing human convulsions in history: over twelve million people were displaced amidst a frenzy of murder, rape and abduction on a massive scale. For decades these violent realities remained buried in silence, even though the memories of brutality never faded. Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side of Silence was the first major work to exhume the personal trauma of the Partition. An undisputed classic, it meticulously locates the individual experiences and private pain at the heart of this cataclysmic event. Furthermore, Butalia reveals how people on the margins of history—children, women, ordinary people, the lower castes, the untouchables—were a ected by this upheaval. In a passionate and stimulating new introduction, Butalia examines not only recent developments in the expanding field of Partition studies but also the heartbreaking ways in which this colossal tragedy continues to impact our lives and what this means for the future of the Indian subcontinent.
The Other Side of Silence
A history of Partition--the separation of India and Pakistan in 1947--from a personal and feminist perspective.
The Other Side of Silence
Author: Urvashi Butalia
language: en
Publisher: C. Hurst & Co. Publishers
Release Date: 2000-01
The Partition of India in 1947 precipitated one of the greatest upheavals in history. Pieced together from oral narratives and testimonies of participants this text is a personal chronicle of partition that places people, rather than high politics, centre stage.