Partition of India and Women

Abstract

15 August 1947 had not only come with the charm of Independence but also gave the sadness of Partition- India and Pakistan. Several million people exchanged their homes and countries. A massive transfer of population took place at a very short notice, when people were not ready for the transfer. The thing became more massive when the riots began, and the worst sufferers of Partition were the women. There was widespread sexual savagery: about 75,000 women are thought to have been abducted and raped by men of religious different from their own land indeed sometimes by men of their own religion.
Women of both sides had paid the price of Independence by losing their own Independence
and womanhood. The purpose of the study is not to forget the partition and to know that
the biggest price of Independence was paid by women. Partition came as an inevitable
part of Independence and partition created a havoc on women. No one should ever forget
what happened then, on women, and take lesson from history because it is rightly said
“Forgotten History Repeats.”