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The chapter will analyse the problems and issues of the people residing in the border villages of Punjab. The term ‘border village’ is used for those villages which are located on the zero line, i.e. Radcliffe Line, which divides India and Pakistan border.
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Sekhon, J.S., Sharma, S. (2022). The Legacy of Partition and Structural Victimisation of the People of Borderland: A Case of Punjab. In: Chowdhory, N., Banerjee, P. (eds) Gender, Identity and Migration in India. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5598-2_13
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