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Jyotirmoyee Devi

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  • Debali Mookerjea-Leonard

    (Debali Mookerjea-Leonard is at the Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University, 603 North Cayuga Street #3, Ithaca, NY 14850, USA. E-mail:dm256@cornell.edu.)

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This paper offers a feminist reading of a novel and short story by Jyotirmoyee Devi on the predicament of Hindu and Sikh women who were abducted and/or raped in the riots surrounding the Partition of India in 1947, repatriated subsequently on state initiative, but rejected by their families and communities. I contend that the rejections were motivated, and even ideologically rationalised, by a long and complicated history of the patriarchal fetish regarding women’s sexuality. Using Jyotirmoyee Devi’s writings, I examine how women, sexually abused by the rival community in the riots of Partition, unless excluded, become representative of the ‘fallen’ nation.

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  • Debali Mookerjea-Leonard, 2005. "Jyotirmoyee Devi," Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Centre for Women's Development Studies, vol. 12(1), pages 1-39, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:indgen:v:12:y:2005:i:1:p:1-39
    DOI: 10.1177/097152150401200101
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