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In early 19th century Bengal, to find yourself pregnant was to see stretching before you nine of the most agonizing months of your existence. Considered Unclean by social practice, you were removed to the most isolated room within the house (the sutikagriha) if you were lucky, or to a dismal outbuilding if you weren’t, where all openings to the outside world were sealed shut, and a fire was set to burning so that the room was permanently excruciatingly hot, dark, and filled w

In 1947, the partition of India carved out a theoretically Muslim-majority territory out of the Indian state, sparking a bloody era of desperate migration as members of religious minorities in the new Indian and Pakistani nations left ancestral homes and sought safety within the boundaries of their co-religionists. That same year, a Muslim woman from northern India whose parents had recently passed away boarded a boat, seeking medical training in England, entirely unsure as t