Violence against women during the Partition of India

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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."

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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.
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.
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.
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.