History is a women's body

The article “History is a woman’s body” tell us about the post partition conditions and the sufferings that the female populace of both India and Pakistan had to go through. Never before had so many migrated to and fro. Around 2 million were killed and millions suffered. This article tries to dictate the real stories of the populace who actually suffered. It puts forward their stories and not those that have been written down in the history books. It doesn’t deliberately involve big names because history has been altered due to such names but the real history is what the people speak out. Thousands of females, married, unmarried, girls, mothers, wives, daughters were kidnapped and raped. They were abducted and taken away and were then used for pleasure or business. They exchanged hands and then were disrespected. Females from both side suffered a similar fate. This chapter tells us what the females really had to go through by their own wordings through either narratives or interviews. It then tells us that a treaty was signed between both the states to try recover as many abducted women as possible. Mridula Sarabhai was asked to head this recovery operation and she was successful in producing around 25000 inquiries and recovering 2500 of them. The greatest problem wasn’t finding those abducted that could be done by gaining the confidence of the locals or by rewarding those who brought information. The main problem was if the female wanted to be recovered, if yes would her family accept her. It was a given fact that the muslim community was better at accepting their daughters then the hindu’s who considered these females to have become unholy. One reason that she did not wish to be recovered was that after so many years she had now moved on and that the man who had saved her from being carried on from hand to hand had become her angel. Had given her respect, married her and fed her. One event also tells us about Liaquat Ali Khan’s involvement in this recovery process. After this Sarabhai was then appointed as the camp leader at a recovery camp Gujrat where first she was given a very deceiving sight of the camp telling her that the woman here earned around 300rs per month but when she took charge she realized all that they earned was not more then 10rs the whole month and were inefficient without their supervisors. This camp was set to help these females stand on their feet and face the world but the conditions here were worsening if they were let out they wouldn’t be able to survive so Sarabhai then turned towards some adult education and paid herself for all the stationary and books that was required asked the local staff if they would be willing to teach and on getting a positive response stepped onto it. She was able to produce a dozen or so females who were able to pass near to matriculation and then be able to step out into the world.