The author of "The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India" is:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Urvashi Butalia
Urvashi Butalia wrote The Other Side of Silence, in which she narrates an incident of Partition in the village of Thoa Khalsa, Rawalpindi district.
Note 1: This question is taken from the chapter ‘Understanding Partition’ which was there in the pre-rationalised NCERT and has been deleted from subsequent editions of NCERT, including the NCERT book (2026-27).
Note 2: A same/similar question was asked in CUET (UG) in the papers below.
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* A similar question.
NCERT (Pre-rationalised): “5.2 Preserving ‘honour’ … Often enough, women internalised the same values. At times, therefore, when the men feared that ‘their’ women – wives, daughters, sisters – would be violated by the ‘enemy’, they killed the women themselves. Urvashi Butalia in her book, The Other Side of Silence, 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.…” |