This article proposes that the Indian Partition of 1947 could be classified as a form of “decolonizing genocide.” It draws upon the original Lemkinian criteria for genocide in order to re-examine aspects of Partition violence. The author thus discusses the need to expand the existing terminology and frameworks that scholars have previously used to analyze the Partition; examines the different state and non-state groups involved, and how the climate of decolonization enabled different state and non-state groups to mobilize in various forms and degrees; and studies the victim groups, particularly, women and their experiences of sexual violence. From the case of Indian Partition, this article argues that the conditions present during decolonization help to perpetuate a specific kind of organized violence, carried out by state, quasi-state, and non-state agents, which is genocidal in both its logic and nature. Thus, re-examining Indian Partition as decolonizing genocide allows us to move beyond Eurocentric and state-oriented definitions of genocide in order to create a more effective approach towards understanding mass violence in decolonizing and postcolonial societies.

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非殖民化和种族灭绝：重新审视印度分区，1946-1947

本文提出，1947 年的印度分治可以归类为“非殖民化种族灭绝”的一种形式。它借鉴了最初的 Lemkinian 种族灭绝标准，以重新审视分区暴力的各个方面。因此，作者讨论了扩展学者先前用于分析分区的现有术语和框架的必要性；检查所涉及的不同国家和非国家团体，以及非殖民化的气氛如何使不同的国家和非国家团体以各种形式和程度进行动员；并研究受害者群体，特别是妇女及其遭受性暴力的经历。从印度分治的案例来看，本文认为非殖民化期间存在的条件有助于使由国家、准国家、和非国家代理人，在逻辑和性质上都是种族灭绝的。因此，将印度分治重新审视为非殖民化种族灭绝，使我们能够超越以欧洲为中心和以国家为导向的种族灭绝定义，以便创造一种更有效的方法来理解非殖民化和后殖民社会中的大规模暴力。