During the Partition of India rape was an extensive issue.[1] It is estimated that during the partition between 75,000[2] and 100,000 women were kidnapped and raped.[3] The rape of Muslim women by Hindu males during this period is well documented, with women also being complicit in these attacks.[4] As was the rape of Hindu women by Muslim males.[5] According to Ritu Menon one of the reasons for these rapes was "an overt assertion of their identity and a simultaneous humiliation of the other by 'dishonouring' their women."[6]
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- ^ Aftab, Tahera (30). Inscribing South Asian Muslim Women: An Annotated Bibliogaphy & Research Guide (Annotated ed.). Brill. p. 224. ISBN 978-9004158498.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help); More than one of|pages=and|page=specified (help); Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ Butalia, Urvashi. Harsh Dobhal (ed.). Writings on Human Rights, Law and Society in India: A Combat Law Anthology. Human Rights Law Network. p. 598. ISBN 81-89479-78-4.
- ^ Chowdhry, Geeta (2000). Sita Ranchod-Nilsson, Mary Ann Tétreaul (ed.). Women, States, and Nationalism: At Home in the Nation? (1st ed.). Routledge. p. 107. ISBN 978-0415221726.
- ^ Kabir, Ananya Jahanara (25). Sorcha Gunne, Zoe Brigley Brigley Thompson (ed.). Feminism, Literature and Rape Narratives: Violence and Violation (1st ed.). Routledge. p. 149. ISBN 978-0415806084.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help); Unknown parameter|month=ignored (help) - ^ Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin (1998). Borders & boundaries : women in India's partition (1. publ. ed.). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Univ. Press. p. 41. ISBN 0813525527.