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During the ] rape was an extensive issue.<ref name=Žarkov>{{cite book|last=Žarkov|first=Dubravka|title=The Body of War: Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-Up of Yugoslavia|year=2007|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0822339663|page=172}}</ref> It is estimated that during the partition, up to 100,000 women were kidnapped and raped.<ref name=Butalia>{{cite book|last=Butalia|first=Urvashi|title=Writings on Human Rights, Law and Society in India: A Combat Law Anthology|publisher=Human Rights Law Network|isbn=81-89479-78-4|editor=Harsh Dobhal|page=598}}</ref> The rape of Muslim women by Hindu males during this period is well documented, with women also being complicit in these attacks.<ref name=Chowdhry>{{cite book|last=Chowdhry|first=Geeta|title=Women, States, and Nationalism: At Home in the Nation?|year=2000|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0415221726|edition=1st|editor=Sita Ranchod-Nilsson, Mary Ann Tétreaul|page=107}}</ref> During the ] rape was an extensive issue.<ref name=Žarkov>{{cite book|last=Žarkov|first=Dubravka|title=The Body of War: Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-Up of Yugoslavia|year=2007|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0822339663|page=172}}</ref> By some estimates around 75,000 - 100,000 women were kidnapped and raped by men from different religious backgrounds.<ref>{{cite book|last=Butalia|first=Urvashi|title=The other side of silence : voices from the partition of India|year=2000|publisher=Duke University Press|location=Durham, N.C.|isbn=0822324946|pages=3|edition=5. printing.}}</ref><ref name=Butalia>{{cite book|last=Butalia|first=Urvashi|title=Writings on Human Rights, Law and Society in India: A Combat Law Anthology|publisher=Human Rights Law Network|isbn=81-89479-78-4|editor=Harsh Dobhal|page=598}}</ref> The women belonging to Hindu and Muslim community were raped and tortured by the men of the other "in an overt assertion of their identity and a simultaneous humiliation of the other by 'dishonouring' their women."<ref>{{cite book|last=Bhasin|first=Ritu Menon & Kamla|title=Borders & boundaries : women in India's partition|year=1998|publisher=Rutgers Univ. Press|location=New Brunswick, NJ|isbn=0813525527|edition=1. publ.|page=41}}</ref>

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==Further reading== ==Further reading==
* ''Perspectives on modern South Asia: a reader in culture, history, and representation.'' Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. 2011. ISBN 9781405100625.
* Butalia, Urvashi (1998). ''''. Penguin Books India. ISBN 0140271716.
* Menon, Ritu; Bhasin, Kamla (1998). ''''. Rutgers University Press, New Jersey. ISBN 0813525527.


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During the Partition of India rape was an extensive issue. By some estimates around 75,000 - 100,000 women were kidnapped and raped by men from different religious backgrounds. The women belonging to Hindu and Muslim community were raped and tortured by the men of the other "in an overt assertion of their identity and a simultaneous humiliation of the other by 'dishonouring' their women."

References

  1. Žarkov, Dubravka (2007). The Body of War: Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-Up of Yugoslavia. Duke University Press. p. 172. ISBN 978-0822339663.
  2. Butalia, Urvashi (2000). The other side of silence : voices from the partition of India (5. printing. ed.). Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. p. 3. ISBN 0822324946.
  3. Butalia, Urvashi. Harsh Dobhal (ed.). Writings on Human Rights, Law and Society in India: A Combat Law Anthology. Human Rights Law Network. p. 598. ISBN 81-89479-78-4.
  4. Bhasin, Ritu Menon & Kamla (1998). Borders & boundaries : women in India's partition (1. publ. ed.). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press. p. 41. ISBN 0813525527.

Further reading

  • Perspectives on modern South Asia: a reader in culture, history, and representation. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. 2011. ISBN 9781405100625.
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