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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> 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> 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> 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>

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==Further reading==
* ''Perspectives on modern South Asia: a reader in culture, history, and representation.'' Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. 2011. ISBN 9781405100625.

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During the Partition of India rape was an extensive issue. The rape of Muslim women by Hindu males during this period is well documented, with women also being complicit in these attacks.

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  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. Chowdhry, Geeta (2000). Sita Ranchod-Nilsson, Mary Ann Tétreaul (ed.). Women, States, and Nationalism: At Home in the Nation? (1st ed.). Routledge. p. 107. ISBN 978-0415221726.
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