The Partition of India
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Recovering Women Abducted and Forcibly Converted
Between 1948 and 56, a recovery operation was carried out by the governments of India and Pakistan. It sought to recover those women who had been abducted and forcibly converted during the upheaval of partition. In 1949, India passed the abducted persons recovery and restoration act. And during the course of those operations, some 30,000 women were recovered. Both Hindu women and Muslim women. Some must wait decades to be reunited with lost friends. Even today, families work tirelessly to find lost loved ones. One benefit of social media is the power to reconnect people separated by time and a line that was hastily drawn on the map.
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