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@article{180129,
        author = {Shashank Kumar Bharti},
        title = {Embodied Borders: Spatial Trauma and the Gendered Experience of Nationhood in Pinjar},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {1},
        pages = {294-300},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=180129},
        abstract = {This article examines Chandraprakash 
Dwivedi’s Pinjar (2003) through the lens of spatial 
trauma and gendered nationhood during the 1947 
Partition of India. Drawing on spatial theory and 
postcolonial trauma studies, it explores how female 
bodies become sites of contested borders, memory, and 
displacement. The protagonist Puro’s journey from 
familial belonging to forced abduction and eventual 
exile reflects the transformation of physical and 
symbolic spaces into zones of violence and 
fragmentation. The paper argues that Pinjar maps a 
gendered cartography of trauma, where homes, 
borders, and landscapes are haunted by loss, silence, 
and the impossibility of return. By foregrounding the 
entanglement of body, space, and nation, the film 
exposes how Partition not only ruptured geography but 
also inscribed lasting wounds onto women’s identities 
and movements. This analysis contributes to a deeper 
understanding of how spatial trauma operates as a 
mechanism of both personal and political erasure in 
postcolonial contexts.},
        keywords = {Spatial Trauma, Partition of India,  Gendered  Nationhood,  Embodied Displacement.},
        month = {May},
        }