Meera Patel
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Meera Patel is a history student at the University of Cambridge, with a focus on sexualized violence during India's partition. She has written previously for The Guardian.
WMC Women Under Siege
Rape accounts still surface from India’s partition 65 years on
War stories are often framed by convenient lines, two clear-cut sides, campaigns and directives. Partition in India reads very differently. In the aftermath of the 1947 declaration of Indian independence, the roughly drawn new state boundaries triggered what may have been the biggest migration in human history.
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