Author(s): Dipna, Dr. Swaraj Raj, Dr. Ankdeep Kaur Attwal

Abstract: The Partition year 1947 was a seismic year whose after effects can be felt even today. The division of British India was poorly planned leading to drastic upheavals. There arose schisms and tensions amongst once harmonious populations. Earlier the people used to live as one family. They used to share not just a cultural gene pool and biological ties, but common kinship institutions too. When the Partition was announced, it all ends gloomily. Our own mothers, sisters and daughters were violated, as they were considered the mark of communal purity. Various authors have shown how women were the immediate recipients of this trauma, either enduring the loss and death of their husbands or by enduring the loss of their own virtue at the hands of rape and sexual violation. There was a heinous display of savage brutality. The partition is not the partition of territory but it is the partition of hearts and souls of the people.

Keywords: Partition, loss, silence, violence, trauma

Article Info: Received: 19 Jul 2024; Received in revised form: 15 Aug 2024; Accepted: 22 Aug 2024; Available online: 29 Aug 2024

DOI: 10.22161/ijels.94.45