On the road to recovery women: Women in the Midst of Partition Rajinder Singh Bedi’s Lajwanti and Amrita Pritam’s Pinjar
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 12
Abstract
The obtainable histories of Partition are frequently contaminated with nationalistic prejudice or talk about political proceedings rather than the experiences of citizens on the ground. This is perchance since a nation – state most often sets down its own version of selective history, which is expected to be accepted in order to consolidate and further its collective identity. In such histories voices which challenge or interrogate this meta-narrative are side-lined at best and totally ignored at worst so that alternative histories and perspectives that might break the selective linearity of the state’s version are institutionally marginalized. The Radcliffe line which officially came into existence on Aug. 16, 1947, truncated the Indian sub-continent into India and Pakistan on the basis of territory as well as religion. On the other hand, this harmonized splitting up let free horror, lack of confidence, spiritual fury, and relocation of astounding scale in both the communities. Women were abducted, their ‘purity’ lost and their body became a medium on which retribution was taken, triumph distinguished. The piece of writing seeks to observe these questions with mention to Rajinder Singh Bedi’s Lajwanti, translated by the author himself and Amrita Pritam’s Pinjar translated by Khushwant Singh. The voices of abducted women during partition were lost under the dominant ideologies of martyrdom, purity and nationhood. The paper also tries to find out whether such independent female voices can be recuperated through literature. Rajinder Singh Bedi’s Lajwanti centre on the collective ignominy facing abducted women returned to their families and group of people from side to side the activities of the Recovery Operation. Amrita Pritam’s Pinjar Pooro, defies patriarchal and territorial boundaries, successfully using her agency to critique the reality of partition by choosing to stay in Pakistan. A victim of cross-religious take hostage Pooro succeeds in escaping from the authority of Rashida, her abductor, only to fall into the abyss of negative response from her parents. Keywords: Partition, obtainable histories, Rajinder Singh Bedi’s Lajwanti.
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Sapna G. S, Dr. C. Chamundeshwari
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