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The very last 2 sentences of the "Region Affected by Partition" section states "Women were raped and sexually assaulted. Many of those killed, raped and injured had come to these areas to escape massacres in West Punjab, which had become part of Pakistan."
These statements specifically imply that Pashtun tribal militias and the Pakistani Military, as mentioned in the previous sentence, are responsible for these acts.This is quite a substantial claim, as it is attributing mass atrocities to groups which are also implicated in this conflict. It is also noteworthy that there is no citation or reference associated with these statements.
In effort improve the clarity of the writing, as well as reduce any biases in the writing of the article, I propose either the removal of these statements, or that they be amended such that they are prefaced with "There have been reports that...", along with being flagged with "Requiring Citation" 122.199.16.32 (talk) 05:29, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi! Instead of adding: ""There have been reports that..." which I don't know if there have been, I added a citation needed tag at the end of each of those two sentences, so the reader knows that we cannot confirm this. Friendly, Lova Falk (talk) 08:28, 11 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Women’s Narratives of Partition
Scholarship on Partition literature has emphasized the importance of women’s narratives, which often foreground the gendered dimensions of displacement, violence, and memory. Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side of Silence (1998) and Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin’s Borders and Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition (1998) are considered landmark works that documented oral histories and highlighted women’s voices in Partition memory.
Subsequent scholarship has extended these concerns to literary and cultural studies. For instance, Anjali Gera Roy and Nandi Bhatia’s edited volumes have examined women’s creative responses to Partition in fiction, theatre, and film.[1]
The study of Partition has also increasingly engaged with memory studies and the concept of postmemory, a term popularized by Marianne Hirsch to describe the transmission of trauma across generations. Scholars such as Alok Bhalla, Jasbir Jain, and Priya Kumar have examined how Partition literature functions as an archive of memory, while also exploring silences, erasures, and intergenerational remembrance.[2][3]
More recent doctoral research by Sana Asif explores Muslim women’s Partition fiction through the frameworks of feminist geography and memory studies, analyzing how homes, cities, and nations are reconfigured in narratives of trauma, displacement, and belonging.[4]
Together, these works highlight the ways in which women’s perspectives — through oral histories, autobiographical accounts, and fictional narratives — reshape the understanding of Partition as a lived and gendered experience. Gender-space-partition (talk) 01:21, 24 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]
^Anjali Gera Roy and Nandi Bhatia (eds.), Partitioned Lives: Narratives of Home, Displacement, and Resettlement (Pearson, 2008).
^Marianne Hirsch, Family Frames: Photography, Narrative, and Postmemory (Harvard University Press, 1997).
^Priya Kumar, "Testimonies of Loss and Memory: Partition and the Haunting of a Nation," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25, no. 1 (2005): 104–122.
^Sana Asif, Gender and Spaces in Partition Fiction: A Study of Select Novels by Muslim Women (PhD thesis, National Institute of Technology Patna, 2022). Available at: [http://hdl.handle.net/10603/591661
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You need to mention the page number also. In the current version, the death toll is mentioned as “200,000–2 million”, citing Talbot & Singh (2009, p. 2). Chronos.Zx (talk) 02:12, 19 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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