Best Books By Urvashi Butalia

List of 5 best books written by Urvashi Butalia. Check out the booklist.

1. Partition: The Long Shadow

The essays in this volume explore new ground in Partition research, looking into areas such as art, literature, migration and notions of ‘foreignness’ and ‘belonging’. It brings focus to hitherto unaddressed areas of partition such as the northeast and Ladakh.

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2. The Other Side of Silence

The partition of India in 1947 caused one of the most harrowing human convulsions in history: over twelve million people were displaced amidst a frenzy of murder, rape and abduction on a massive scale. For decades these violent realities remained buried in silence, even though the memories of brutality never faded. Urvashi Butalia’s The Other Side of Silence was the first major work to exhume the personal trauma of the Partition.

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3. Katha: Short Stories by Indian Women

Whether it is in the kitchen or elsewhere, Indian women???s stories have been handed down from generation to generation, enriched and embroidered along the way. But with the coming of political change and print culture many women???s voices were silenced. It is only in more recent times that these voices can again be heard, in all their confidence and variety.

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4. Speaking Peace

Kashmir has been, for some years, a key issue on the Indian political map. More than a decade of conflict has deeply affected people’s livelihoods and living environments, their health, their eating habits, their work and workplaces, their access to education. The impact of these things is felt most sharply in the lives of women, and yet, few discussions on Kashmir pay attention to this.