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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 rape of Muslim women by Hindu males during this period is well documented, with women also being complicit in these attacks.

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. 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.

Further reading

• Butalia, Urvashi (1998). The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. Penguin Books India. ISBN 0140271716.
• Menon, Ritu; Bhasin, Kamla (1998). Borders & Boundaries: Women in India's Partition. Rutgers University Press, New Jersey. ISBN 0813525527.

• Partition of India
• Rape in India
• Rape in Pakistan