The partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, caused one of the
most massive human convulsions in history. Within the space of two months in
1947 more than twelve million people were displaced. A million died. More than
seventy-five thousand women were abducted and raped. Countless children
disappeared. Homes, villages, communities, families, and relationships were
destroyed. Yet, more than half a century later, little is known of the human
dimensions of this event. In The Other Side of Silence , Urvashi Butalia fills
this gap by placing people their individual experiences, their private pain at
the center of this epochal event.Through interviews conducted over a