![]() ![]() We don’t have such low dealings with our lower castes as Hindus and Sikhs did with Musalmaans. ![]() A guest comes to our house and we say to him, bring those utensils and wash them, and if my mother or sister have to give him food, they will more or less throw the roti from such a distance, fearing that they may touch the dish and become polluted. Following the closure of Kali for Women, she founded Zubaan Books. Butalia co-founded Kali for Women, India’s first exclusively feminist publishing house. ![]() And our dealings with them were so low that I am even ashamed to say it. Urvashi Butalia is the author of The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India, which centers oral histories from subaltern communities and women who experienced the Partition. They would give us uncooked food, ghee, atta, dal, whatever sabzis they had, chicken and even mutton, all raw. If we went to their houses and took part in their weddings and ceremonies, they used to really respect and honour us. This was the reason Pakistan was created. If they would come to our houses we would have two utensils in one corner of the house, and we would tell them, pick these up and eat in them they would then wash them and keep them aside and this was such a terrible thing. ![]() “Such good relations we had that if there was any function that we had, then we used to call Musalmaans to our homes, they would eat in our houses, but we would not eat in theirs and this is a bad thing, which I realize now. ![]()
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