Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Other Side of SilenceCondition: NewSubtitle: Voices from the Partition of IndiaISBN-10: 0822324946EAN: 9780822324942ISBN: 9780822324942Publisher: Duke University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/16/2000Description: 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. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USAuthor: Urvashi ButaliaGenre: HistoryTopic: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2000 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Other Side of Silence
Title: The Other Side of Silence
Subtitle: Voices from the Partition of India
ISBN-10: 0822324946
EAN: 9780822324942
ISBN: 9780822324942
Release Date: 06/16/2000
Release Year: 2000
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Publication Name: Other Side of Silence : Voices from the Partition of India
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2000
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Asia / India & South Asia
Item Weight: 16.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Urvashi Butalia
Item Length: 9.4 in
Subject Area: History
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
