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Abstract
The history of India witnessed the world’s largest movement of population ranging from 10-18 million during its 1947 partition during the India and Pakistan independence. This catastrophe left 2 million dead and more than 10 million displaced in a few days. The worst sufferers were women who faced horrible brutalities. Thousands of women were abducted, raped, mutilated. Some British soldiers and journalists claimed Partition’s brutalities were worse to Nazi death camps. Those horrified incidents left physical and psychological scars on women. Under the psyche of family honor, most of these women never had the chance to tell their stories and chose to let silence takes over instead. Yet, there are numerous writings, movies, pictures depicting the pain and suffering of women. However, a comprehensive source of information providing exhaustive reporting of such writings and other documents still lacks. This paper will analyze various efforts being made to depict and preserve memories of refugee women including through oral history sources.