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- ↑ Paola Bacchetta, "Reinterrogating Partition Violence: Voices of Women/Children/'Dalits' in India's Partition", Feminist Studies 26 (2000): 3.
- ↑ Somak Ghoshal (14 June 2013). "Urvashi Butalia: I want to prove that feminist publishing can survive commercially". Livemint. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
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