TY  - BOOK
AU  - Datta,Nonica
TI  - Violence, Martyrdom and Partition: A Daughter's Testimony [ electronic resource ] 
SN  - 9780199080236 (e-book )
PY  - 2012///
PB  - Oxford Scholarship Online
KW  - Women Studies
KW  - Electronic books
N2  - This book presents the oral testimony of Subhashini (1914–2003), the woman head of a well-known Arya Samaj institution devoted to women's education in rural north India. Subhashini's narrative unfolds a story, within a sea of stories, which has remained silent in the dominant historical discourse. Her memory evokes contrasting images of violence, martyrdom, and Partition. Not 1947 but 1942 — the year of her father's ‘martyrdom’ — is recalled as a violent rupture in her memory. Partition is a moment of celebration, revenge, divine retribution, empathy, remorse, tragedy, and fear. Translating Subhashini's oral testimony, the author recreates the memory of a colonial subject, living in postcolonial times, as a historical narrative. Moving beyond a historical event and well-established historical facts, Violence, Martyrdom and Partition is a parallel history of events and non-events, memory and history, testimony and experience. The book also includes photographs of Subhashini and a map of the Rohtak District and Dujana State
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195699340.001.0001
ER  -