Artist: Faustin Elmer Chaudhry
Date: 1947
Museum: The Citizens Archive of Pakistan (Karachi, Pakistan)
Technique: Photograph
A group of female refugees with their children. Both the women and children are in a bad state with torn or no clothes at all. They seem to have taken shelter in one of the then recently evacuated properties, abandoned by those who left for India.Women were among the worst affected victims of Partition. The chaos and displacement made them especially vulnerable. They were molested, tortured and kidnapped. Many of the abducted women were forcefully converted to the abductors
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