The Impact of the Indian Partition on Women

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This year marks the 70th anniversary of the independence and then the partition of India. That division into Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan resulted in one of the largest migrations in human history of over 10 million people. Three friends, Shan, Pavan and Doris, who lived through Partition listen as Shan reveals what happened to her family, and Jenni speaks to broadcaster, Anita Rani, and Partition Scholar Urvashi Butalia about the unspeakable violence on both sides that claimed up to a million lives, while tens of thousands of women suffered rape and abduction.