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Women

Gender, Identity and Migration in India

Nasreen Chowdhory
Paula Banerjee
Palgrave Macmillan
2022

Ret Samadhi

Geetanjili Shree
Rajkamal Prakashan
2019

Women in India and Pakistan: The Struggle for Independence from British Rule

Rozina Visram
Cambridge University Press
1993

Gendering Oral History of Partition: Interrogating Patriarchy

Author(s): 
Anjali Bhardwaj Datta
Publisher/Sponsor: 
Economic and Political Weekly
www.jstor.org/stable/4418296

Women's lives in the Punjab, hitherto regulated by strictly set patriarchal norms, saw unexpected and almost drastic change as Partition set in. The motif of Partition has centred on the humiliation and trauma that women encountered and witnessed. While it is true that women were, in countless instances, Partition's ubiquitous victims, in very many ways the chaos and temporality of the post-Partition period allowed several of them to redefine themselves anew.

Sisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India

Jyoti Thottam
Viking
2022

Understanding Women’s Experiences of Displacement: Literature, Culture and Society in South Asia

Suranjana Choudhury
Nabanita Sengupta
Routledge
2021

Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?

Anita Rau Badami
Scribe Publications
2007

Of Tapestry, Time and Tears

Carol Morgan
Createspace Independent Pub
2011

Women and the Partition of India

Parmar, Prof.Sumita
EPG Paathshala

Embodied Violence: Communalising Women's Sexuality in South Asia

Kumari Jayawardena
Malathi de Alwis
Zed Books
1996

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