NO WOMAN’S LAND

Women from Pakistan, India & Bangladesh Write on the Partition of India

Ritu Menon

9788188965045

Women Unlimited 2002

Language: English

204 Pages

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About the Book

A matchless volume of non-fiction writing by women from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh on the Partition of India, No Woman’s Land is an unusual mix of memoirs, interviews, reminiscences and reflective essays by Ismat Chughtai, Sara Suleri, Anis Kidwai, Phulrenu Guha, Meghna Guhathakurta, and many others. Through their writings these women articulate what Partition means to them; and how they define themselves—Hindus? Muslims? Indians? Pakistanis? Bengalis? All of these or none? Above all, their accounts raise that most troubling question: do women have a country? NO WOMAN’S LAND Women from Pakistan, India & Bangladesh Write on the Partition of India RITU MENON (ed.) PARTITIO


Ritu Menon

Ritu Menon co-founded Kali for Women, India’s first feminist press, in 1984, and is founder-director of Women Unlimited, an associate of KfW. She is the author of several books, among them the groundbreaking Borders & Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition; Out of Line: a literary and political biography of Nayantara Sahgal; Loitering With Intent: Diary of a Happy Traveller; and editor of a number of anthologies of prose, poetry and memoirs. ZOHRA! A Biography in Four Acts is her latest book.

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