Gendered Violence and Partition Memory in Postcolonial Novels and Films

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Sexual violence against Sikh women is often elided in fictional representations in the genre of the Partition narratives, while violence against male Sikhs appears through hyperbolic and hypermasculine tropes. When violence against Sikh women does appear, it is only through tropes of mass suicides and honor killings where their erasures will save communal honor. In these narratives, male Sikhs are constructed either as saint soldiers as represented in Sikh historical narratives, or as warriors in opposition to the effete Hindu as in colonial narratives; however, in texts written outside India, the British construction of Sikhs as ferocious lions influences cultural production in stereotypical and simplistic ways. In this chapter, I concentrate on the idea of Sikh communal honor and its protection through mass suicides by Sikh women, or the idea of the male Sikh as self- sacrificing, as represented in Bhisham Sahni’s 1974 novel Tamas ( Darkness ), Manoj Punj’s 1999 film Shaheed-e-Mohabbat Boota Singh , Vic Sarin’s 2007 film Partition , and Anil Sharma’s 2001 film Gadar: Ek Prem Katha .

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