The Suffering of Women During Amrita Pritam's Pinjar Partition
Keywords:
Partition, Sexual Violence, Pain, women, AlienationAbstract
Amrita Pritam is well-known for her literary contributions to the partition. Readers might discover a contemporary history of India's partition catastrophe in her works. Readers can visualize and understand the true anguish experienced by the people during India's partition through the author's writings. Her well-known book Pinjar (The Skeleton) has a notable place in the partition fiction genre. Published in Punjabi in 1950, Khushwant Singh later translated it into English. The author uses the book to illustrate how women in India were ostracized, traumatized, and sexually assaulted during the partition. This article aims to demonstrate how the author, by using Pinjar as a lens, throws significant light on women's identity and sexuality difficulties. In light of this, the article will analyze the author's depictions of sexual assault against women, their suffering, and their estrangement from their bodies as a result of the division.
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