Gender, War and Justice in South and Southeast Asia

Order Description

Critical Review Essays

During the first part of the course, you will complete a 1000-word essay synthesizing and thinking beyond the readings.

In your essay of 1000-words, you must do the following:
1. Demonstrate significant engagement with the readings and topics in the course.
2. Demonstrate your ability to understand the authors in relation to one another.
3. Demonstrate your ability to integrate the author’s ideas and arguments with your ideas and arguments – as well as the broader frames in which we all live and work.
4. Demonstrate proper practices of academic citation.

Essay Question: Compare the form(s) and operation(s) of silence across Partition in India and Pakistan and the 1971 War in Bangladesh. How can, and should, silence be addressed?

Student’s message to writer:Please read and understand the question carefully. This is a gender based study as you can see from the subject title. In this essay question , you must focus on women’s suffering during India Pakistan partition in 1947 and women of Bangladesh in 1971 war mainly rape victims,,, their silence and how to address the silence . I would like you to give an over view of India Pakistan partition and Bangladesh 1971 war in introduction then each para for India , Pakistan and Bangladesh showing comparisons of silence then offer how silence should be addressed according to the authors mention in the class texts. I have added class text at the end of texts and the essay references mostly to be drawn from those class texts as the lecturer demands us to reflect from class readings.

Remember these important authors : Urvashi Butalia , Ritu Menon, Gyanendra Pandey, Suleri , mookherjee , zaman, saikia and most importantly bina d’costa.

Bina D costa offers how to address the silence in her texts and Butalia.