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Reimagining Identity after Partition: Rehabilitation in the Works of Butalia, Menon, Bhasin, and Chawla

Author(s) Ms. MOUMITA BISWAS
Country India
Abstract The paper explores multi-dimensional dynamics of identity reconstructions, belonging, and rehabilitation after the 1947 Partition of British India, among the most massive and traumatic forced migrations in modern times. It maintains that, Partition was not only a geopolitical happening but a human crisis that shook social, cultural and psychological constructs of identity. Based on the writings of Urvashi Butalia, Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin, and Devika Chawla, oral histories as an alternative archive have been prefigured in the study to recover the marginalized voices, especially that of women, Dalits, and displaced communities.The article emphasizes the bargaining of new identities by the refugees through inflexible nation-state systems that usually marginalized them with bureaucracies and patriarchal systems. It also discusses the gendered aspects of displacement, which focused on women with their bodies becoming a location of violence and politics. The study through oral testimonies demonstrates how the survivors actively constructed ideas about home, community and self despite trauma and loss. Moreover, the study explores the ways in which memory and trauma are transmitted across generations, and it shows the way in which Partition still informs the identities, cultural memory and diasporic consciousness. Finally, the paper concludes that Partition is a continuous process, and memory, resilience, and storytelling are still at the core of identity and belonging in South Asia.
Keywords KEYWORDS: Partition, Rehabilitation, Marginalized, Oral testimonies, Memory, Identities
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Published In Volume 8, Issue 2, March-April 2026
Published On 2026-04-16
DOI https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2026.v08i02.74439
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