The Partition of India: Through the Experience of Bengali Refugee Women
The Criterion- An International Journal in English
2013
Summary:
The effects of 1947 partition of India, is still considered as the largest human
migration that the society has seen witnessed in the history. The impact of the partition was
the highest only on the people from East Bengal, especially women who unfortunately
became the refugees within their own state which was previously united. When thousands of
refugees were coming out from East Bengal every day after the February Riot in 1950, the
East Bengali woman had to pay the cost of independence by their chastity, lives of their
husbands, their own life as well as the lives of their beloved children. Women were the most
common targets of attack especially at that time. Forced marriage, rape and abduction of
women on a large scale were very common ways of attacks upon the minorities. The refugee
women were humiliated and badly tortured on their way to West Bengal in the form of search
by the Pakistani customs officers and staff. The impact of those incidents still lasts in the
society. This research paper intends investigate the sufferings underwent by refugee women
from East Bengal at the time of partition of India.
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Language:
English