Amrita Pritam’s Translation of Indian Cultural Violence during the Partition

A Holocaust of Abductions in Pinjar

Abstract

Amrita Pritam build a historical museum to display the tragic taleof abducted girls ina hypostatized text Pinjar or The Skeleton.She shed tears on sexual violencefaced by the women during the cross-border exodus. Herein she ‘deplores dispassionately the Holocaust’ that paralysed the Indian girls. Perhaps Pritam was “writing about the cultural and political identities” of Indian women who were victims of inter-community violence.Moreover, partitive experiences forced Pritam to put pen on “the suffering of those who are abducted and raped.”