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WOMAN'S LAND: Women
from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh Write on the
Partition of India
Ritu
Menon (ED.)
Rs 300 Hb 2004
81-88965-04-9
(Pakistani rights sold. All others available)
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Never
before has a single volume featured non-fiction
writing by women from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh
on the Partition of India. Here, for the first time
are Ismat Chughtai, Sara Suleri, Anees Kidwai, Phulrenu
Guha, Meghna Guha-Thakurta, Shehla Shibli, Manikuntala Sen,
Kamlaben Patel and many others, speaking and writing
about communalism and literature, what they learnt from
refugees, what Partition means to them 50 years later,
and how they define themselves—Hindus? Muslims? Indians?
Pakistanis? Bengalis? All of these or none? Either or
neither? Not-Indian-not-Pakistani? Bangladeshi not Pakistani?
Above all, their accounts raise that most troubling question:
do women have a country? An unusual mix of memoirs, interviews,
reminiscences and reflective essays, this anthology is the first
attempt to present women’s voices on the Partition of India
based on the experience of three countries.
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RITU MENON
is a publisher and writer.
She is co-author of Borders and Boundaries:
Women in India's Partition, and of Inequality and Community Disadvantage:
A Study of Muslim Women in India (forthcoming); and editor,
Unmaking the Nation: A Three Country Perspective on the Partition of India.
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