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The other side of silence:

voices from the partition of India
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DUKE University Press, 2000 - History - 308 pages
The partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, caused one of the most massive human convulsions in history. Within the space of two months in 1947 more than twelve million people were displaced. A million died. More than seventy-five thousand women were abducted and raped. Countless children disappeared. Homes, villages, communities, families, and relationships were destroyed. Yet, more than half a century later, little is known of the human dimensions of this event. In The Other Side of Silence, Urvashi Butalia fills this gap by placing people--their individual experiences, their private pain--at the center of this epochal event. Through interviews conducted over a ten-year period and an examination of diaries, letters, memoirs, and parliamentary documents, Butalia asks how people on the margins of history--children, women, ordinary people, the lower castes, the untouchables--have been affected by this upheaval. To understand how and why certain events become shrouded in silence, she traces facets of her own poignant and partition-scarred family history before investigating the stories of other people and their experiences of the effects of this violent disruption. Those whom she interviews reveal that, at least in private, the voices of partition have not been stilled and the bitterness remains. Throughout, Butalia reflects on difficult questions: What did community, caste, and gender have to do with the violence that accompanied partition? What was partition meant to achieve and what did it actually achieve? How, through unspeakable horrors, did the survivors go on? Believing that only by remembering and telling their stories can those affected begin the process of healing and forgetting. Butalia presents a sensitive and moving account of her quest to hear the painful truth behind the silence.

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Review: The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India

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Urvashi Butalia has framed those untold stories of partition which somehow got buried in the solitude of time and memory. Every thread in form of story is woven in such a way that human emotion oozes out by every proceeding page. A read where the soul cries. Read full review

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Memoirs of those who survived Partition in 1947- I wanted to enjoy this more than I did but the author repeated herself a lot... Read full review

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About the author (2000)

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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.

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TitleThe other side of silence: voices from the partition of India
AuthorButalia
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherDUKE University Press, 2000
ISBN0822324946, 9780822324942
Length308 pages
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History / Asia / India & South Asia
Political Science / Civil Rights
Social Science / Women's Studies
  
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