India's Survivors of Partition Begin to Break Long Silence
A news item by By Rama Lakshmi, Washington Post Foreign Service
March 12, 2008
ccording to conservative estimates, about half a million Hindus and Muslims were slaughtered and 14 million displaced, and about 70,000 women were abducted and raped, leaving both countries with deep psychological and political scars. Riots convulsed the newly independent nations for months as centuries-old communities split apart.
"Partition is the unwritten epic of our times," said Ashis Nandy, a social psychologist at India's Center for the Study of Developing Societies. "Now there is an urgency to capture the stories of a generation whose voices will fade away soon."
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Another literary link: http://www.hawaii.edu/mjournal/text/issues/descriptions/india-pakistan07.html (CROSSING OVER: PARTITION LITERATURE FROM INDIA, PAKISTAN, AND BANGLADESH)
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