Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Modern India: Understanding Partition

Question:

The author of "The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India" is:

Options:

Anita Inder Singh

Urvashi Butalia

Uma Chakravarti

Mridula Mukherjee

Correct Answer:

Urvashi Butalia

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (2) → Urvashi Butalia

Urvashi Butalia in her book, "The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India", narrates one such gruesome incident in the village of Thoa Khalsa, Rawalpindi district. During Partition, in this Sikh village, ninety women are said to have “voluntarily” jumped into a well rather than fall into “enemy” hands.