The Partition of India – Part 5: A Crisis Made Flesh

Conflicted: A History Podcast

Zach Cornwell

Society & Culture, Education, History

4.8 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

The “chief sufferers” of Partition, according to Mohandas Gandhi, were women. As the subcontinent descended into chaos, women of all three religious communities become prime targets in the war for honor and land. Across the Punjab, tens of thousands of women and girls were assaulted, abducted and trafficked across the border. In response, the governments of India and Pakistan worked together to recover them – with mixed, and tragic, results. Sources: Akbar, M.J. Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. 2011. Tharoor, Shashi. Nehru: The Invention of India. 2003. Tharoor, Shashi. Inglorious Empire: What The British Did To India. 2017. Khan, Yasmin. The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan. 2007. Guha, Ramachandra. Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World. 2018. Sarila, Narendra Singh. The Shadow of the Great Game. 2005. Charles Rivers Editors. The Punjab. 2018. Charles Rivers Editors. British India. 2017. Puri, Kavita. Partition Voices: Untold British Stories. 2019. Malhotra, Aanchal. Remnants of Partition: 21 Objects From A Continent Divided. 2017. Von Tunzelmann, Alex. Indian Summer. 2007. Zakaria, Anam. The Footprints of Partition. 2015. Ahmed Akbar. Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity. 1997. Urvashi, Butalia. The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. 1998. White-Spunner, Barney. Partition. 2017. Lawrence, James. Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India. 1997. Hamdani, Yasser Latif. Jinnah: A Life. 2020. Fischer, Louis. Gandhi. 1950. Kidwai, Anis. In Freedom’s Shade. 2011. Saxena, Chandni. “ON RELIGION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON WOMEN DURING PARTITION OF INDIA.” 2014. “India: A People Partitioned” Broadcast on the BBC World Service, 1997. Compiled and presented by Andrew Whitehead, producer Zina Rohan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.2	Hello and welcome to Conflicted, the history podcast where we talk about the struggles that shaped us, the tough questions that they pose, and why we should care about any of it.
1:10.5	Conflicted is a member of the Evergreen Podcast Network.
1:13.8	And as always, I'm your host, Zach Cornwell.
1:16.6	You are listening to Part 5 of a multi-part series on the partition of India.
1:22.5	Now, if you're still with me at this point, I just want to take a second and say, thank you.
1:26.8	I know that this has been
1:28.1	an uncharacteristically long series, and I appreciate your patience as we take the time
1:33.1	to explore all the nooks and crannies of this topic. But if you're starting to get a little
1:37.3	partition fatigue, I totally understand. And don't worry, after we've concluded this series,
1:42.7	we'll return to the typical conflicted format,
1:45.4	the two-parters, the one-parters, that kind of stuff.
1:48.3	As they say, sometimes less is more,
1:50.9	and very soon we will leave India,
1:53.2	and maybe even the 20th century behind
1:55.3	in search of other interesting and unexpected topics.
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