HistoryBook · 1998
The Other Side of Silence
Urvashi Butalia
Butalia's oral history of women, children and Dalits, recording what the official accounts left out. Devastating.
Why you should read this
An oral history of the Partition of India built from interviews with survivors, particularly women, children and Dalits whose experiences rarely made it into the political histories of 1947. Among the early books to treat Partition as a subject of memory and trauma rather than only political event, and it does not soften the violence it records.
- Field
- History
- Form
- Non-fiction
- Published
- 1998
- Themes
- Indian HistoryHistory
