Jyotirmoyee Devi

Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
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Debali Mookerjea-Leonard: Debali Mookerjea-Leonard is at the Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University, 603 North Cayuga Street #3, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA. E-mail:dm256@cornell.edu.

Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2005, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-39

Abstract: This paper offers a feminist reading of a novel and short story by Jyotirmoyee Devi on the predicament of Hindu and Sikh women who were abducted and/or raped in the riots surrounding the Partition of India in 1947, repatriated subsequently on state initiative, but rejected by their families and communities. I contend that the rejections were motivated, and even ideologically rationalised, by a long and complicated history of the patriarchal fetish regarding women’s sexuality. Using Jyotirmoyee Devi’s writings, I examine how women, sexually abused by the rival community in the riots of Partition, unless excluded, become representative of the ‘fallen’ nation.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1177/097152150401200101

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