Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India by Kamla Bhasin, Ritu Menon

Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India

Kamla Bhasin, Ritu Menon

288 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging emotional informative slow-paced

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As an event of shattering consequence, the Partition of India remains significant today. While Partition sounds smooth on paper, the reality was horrific. More than eight million people migrated and one million died in the process. The forced migr...

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