Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Foreword by Ranabir Samaddar
- Preface
- ETHICAL ISSUES
- LAWS
- SOUTH ASIA
- INDIA
- GENDER
- Introduction
- Refugee Repatriation: A Politics of Gender
- Families, Displacement, Partition
- Widows of Brindaban: Memories of Partition
- Agony Continues: Refugee Women of Bhutan
- Dislocating Women and Making the Nation
- Geder, Media and the Tsunami
- Why Should we Listen to Her?
- Women, Trafficking and Statelessness
- The Bar Dancer and the Trafficking Migrant: Globalization and Subaltern Existence
- INTERVIEW/CORRESPONDENCE
- REPRESENTATIONS
- Index
Refugee Repatriation: A Politics of Gender
from GENDER
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Foreword by Ranabir Samaddar
- Preface
- ETHICAL ISSUES
- LAWS
- SOUTH ASIA
- INDIA
- GENDER
- Introduction
- Refugee Repatriation: A Politics of Gender
- Families, Displacement, Partition
- Widows of Brindaban: Memories of Partition
- Agony Continues: Refugee Women of Bhutan
- Dislocating Women and Making the Nation
- Geder, Media and the Tsunami
- Why Should we Listen to Her?
- Women, Trafficking and Statelessness
- The Bar Dancer and the Trafficking Migrant: Globalization and Subaltern Existence
- INTERVIEW/CORRESPONDENCE
- REPRESENTATIONS
- Index
Summary
The Hindustan–Pakistan plan of 3 June 1947 and the subsequent partition, which resulted in the movement of over 15 million people across the borders of Bengal and Punjab, generated a national memory of rape, abduction and unprecedented brutalization of women. Yet, partition is often interpreted as being beyond gender politics. A corrective entails a new interpretative study of this fracture with a focus on women, which will move beyond women's experiences to metaphoric uses of gender in state politics in a time of crisis.
Our questions then are: Was there a politics of gender in the politics of partition? Has that thrown up an alternative meaning of women's identity? Did this emergent feminine identity result in objectification and exclusion of women? These questions assume greater importance if we consider that women's experiences of migration and destitution during partition and the state's response to it is a pointer to the relationship between the women's position as marginal participants in a highly insecure environment and the politics of gender subordination as perpetrated by the state. […]
ABDUCTION AND SOME ISSUES
A large number of abducted women have been missing during the trans-border movement. On the basis of individual complaints received it seems that the number was well over 50,000. Some incidents relating to these abducted women/persons exemplify the politics of gender during partition.
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- The Fleeing People of South AsiaSelections from Refugee Watch, pp. 300 - 303Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2009