WOMEN AND PARTITION: NATION AND GENDER DYNAMICS

In this paper, I have attempted to present an overview of the constructs of Gender and Nationalism to prove that the agenda of social, political and cultural groups prevalent at the times of Partition ensured a specific ideology for women which was diametrically opposed to the mindset of men. In view of the political agendas, cultural and religious propaganda, women suffered the most by remaining passive observers. The second paper in this series will reveal the same arguments through representations in literature of the times.