Renegotiating the Self

The paper examines the life histories of women who faced the worst of violence, abduction and then forced recovery and restoration during and after Partition. The entire process brings to the surface the place that women's sexuality occupies in a largely patriarchal world, as women become the repositories of national, communitarian and familial honour It attempts to study the conflicting and ambiguous relationships between the state, social workers and women to be recovered and between the women and their families and raises serious questions on Indian state's definition of itself as ‘secular’ and ‘democratic’

Democracy · Honour · Human sexuality · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora