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NO WOMAN’S LAND: WOMEN FROM PAKISTAN, INDIA & BANGLADESH WRITE ON THE PARTITION OF INDIA
Ritu Menon (Ed.)
Rs 300 Hb 2004
81-88965-04-9
(All rights available)
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Never before has a single volume featured non-fiction writing by women from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh on the Partition of India. Here, for the first time, are Ismat Chughtai, Sara Suleri, Anees Kidwai, Phulrenu Guha, Meghna Guha-Thakurta, Shehla Shibli, Manikuntala Sen, Kamlaben Patel and many others, speaking and writing about communalism and literature; what they learnt from refugees, what Partition means to them 50 years later, and how they define themselves Hindus? Muslims? Indians? Pakistanis? Bengalis? All of these or none? Either or neither? Not-Indian-not-Pakistani? Bangladeshi not Pakistani? Above all, their accounts raise that most troubling question: do women have a country?
An unusual mix of memoirs, interviews, reminiscences and reflective essays, this anthology is the first attempt to present women’s perspective on the Partition of India based on the experience of
three countries.
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RITU MENON
is a publisher and independent scholar. She is co-author of Borders and Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition, and of Unequal Citizens: A Study of Muslim Women in India; and editor, In a Minority: Essays on Muslim Women in India, co-edited with Zoya Hasan. She has edited several anthologies of stories by Indian women and is a founder member of Women’s WORLD, an international free-speech network of writers, translators and publishers.
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