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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
Žarkov, Dubravka (2007). The Body of War: Media, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Break-Up of Yugoslavia. Duke University Press. p. 172. ISBN978-0822339663.
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. ISBN0822324946.
Butalia, Urvashi. Harsh Dobhal (ed.). Writings on Human Rights, Law and Society in India: A Combat Law Anthology. Human Rights Law Network. p. 598. ISBN81-89479-78-4.
Bhasin, Ritu Menon & Kamla (1998). Borders & boundaries : women in India's partition (1. publ. ed.). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press. p. 41. ISBN0813525527.
Further reading
Perspectives on modern South Asia: a reader in culture, history, and representation. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell. 2011. ISBN 9781405100625.