The article investigates multi-layered violence inflicted on women in the process of nation-building and the discourse of nationalism, in context of the Partition of 1947, as represented in a real account and a short story taken for the study. The paper is an attempt to understand how women experienced this event, as represented in the narratives taken, which would further throw some light on the world we live in today. Women suffered a lot worse, in kind and degree, then men at the time of Partition. In every communal strife they remain at the receiving end. Their bodies are violated, homes are destroyed, their men and children are killed and they are left with the task of rebuilding the community. But the question arises why we hear so less about them? Why a veil of silence surrounds when it comes to talking of these victimized women? The holocaust of Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 serves a very ripe ground that manifests the above mentioned idea in its crudest form.