--- product_id: 18949821 title: "The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India" brand: "urvashi butalia" price: "VT9353" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/18949821-the-other-side-of-silence-voices-from-the-partition-india store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India **Brand:** urvashi butalia **Price:** VT9353 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India by urvashi butalia - **How much does it cost?** VT9353 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/18949821-the-other-side-of-silence-voices-from-the-partition-india) ## Best For - urvashi butalia enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted urvashi butalia brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Urvashi ButaliaThe Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India ## Images ![The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91tLf8zqqdL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Voices from the Silence *by R***M on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2013* This is an important book on a subject few have addressed, even marginally. Urvashi Butalia has tackled it head on. Few Indians or Pakistanis, let alone the rest of the world know or even recognize the fundamental ways in which the women and children on both sides of the religious divide paid the price of Partition, literally, with their lives. Sexual violence has always been a weapon of war. Indeed, 'to the victor goes the spoils' has been a war cry for millennia, and women are classed as part of those spoils. This fact is not in and of itself new. However, the scale and magnitude with which the rape, abandonment, and ritual sacrifice of women and children occurred during Partition, and the horrifying extent to which these acts were 'justified' by religious belief and cultural practice, is devastating.The word holocaust, as used in the Biblical sense of 'burnt sacrifice', is actually relevant here. So many women and children were sacrificed, very literally, on the altar of 'honor' as defined by religion and culture during that awful period in our history. The sheer volume of research done by Ms. Butalia's team could easily have allowed the reader to distance themselves, protected by the objectivity of data...an issue that Ms. Butalia addresses at the very outset, at some length. However, she manages to have the voices of those people, the sacrifier as well as the sacrificed, speak out of the silence with aching clarity. She connects the threads of action (and paralyzing inaction) of Governmental agencies British, Indian and of the newly formed Pakistan with an acute historical perception.There are a couple of places where the editors could have had a firmer hand, but in all, a book that needed to be written, and now should be required reading for anyone who wishes to know or understand the events of Partition. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Powerful and Important Book *by K***K on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 16, 2011* .Somedays I wonder what was in the air the 1940's that made people worldwide so cruel to each other.Having recently read Yasmin Khan's quiet and well-balanced account of the Partition of India, I find Butalia's book adds the human dimension, the pride, the fear, the anguish, and passion that brings the horrors of the Partition alive.Urvashi Butalia's oral histories are extremely important resources for historians, sociologists, and for all who try to understand how the past informs the present.This is a very compelling read.Kim BurdickStanton, DE ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Heart moving page turner *by P***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 16, 2014* It tells us a heart moving reality of the partition of India. It leaves us with the message that it was not only a partition of two countries but partition of families, ties, friends, and the people themselves.It is an excellent read, a page turner which will not let you put the book down. 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