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

A Holocaust of Abductions in Pinjar

Abstract

Pinjar posed a challenge to culture with some historical facts, communal narrativizations, and personal experiences only to set harmony between two bloodthirsty religions. The essay, therefore, defines the marginalized voice of a displaced woman, Pooro, who narrated her biographical, national as well socio-political history from below with the definition of violence that visited women. While defining the sexual politics that was driven by the pity of partition, she replies how the narrative shifted from nationalism to abduction and converted into a tsunami of violence, and rape. It simultaneously sparked some ink on the political negotiations between Nehru and Jinnah that eventually shaped the Abduction Bill, which could be seen as a paradox of “identity” for the dislocated women who and later restored with the help of a Bill. The conclusion underlines how the post-independent society is trying to forget the unforgettable act of inhumanity.