The Trauma and the Triumph: A Story of Loss and sufferings of people in Eastern India

Abstract

The Partition of 1947 is an unquestionable and memorable event in the history of contemporary India and South Asia, and the effects are still felt by the people of India and Pakistan. The interpretation of the partition of India is not just confined to the political sphere, given the riots, mass killings, and physical and psychological torture of both men and women, discussions have also begun to take place in the disciplines of feminist history, literature, gender history, etc. Writers such as Ritu Menon, Urvashi Butalia began honing new approaches to this historic partition in the 1990s. Another work added to this list is “The Trauma and the Triumph: Gender and Partition in Eastern India” edited by Jasodhara Bagchi and Subhoranjan Dasgupta (2006). Therefore, the primary aim of this study is to examine the discourse on Partition within this book; also, it seeks to evaluate the book’s relevance to the history of 1947.