What does Urvashi Butalia aim at in The Other Side of Silence?
- A. Understanding Partition beyond the political divide
- B. Foregrounding a personal history of Partition
- C. Presenting Partition as more tragic than the Holocaust
- D. Finding and uniting separated families
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Correct answer: A. A and B only
Explanation
Butalia (1998) begins with her own family's Partition story and collects oral histories of women, children and Dalits, beyond the high-political narrative.
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