India After Gandhi - pg. 108

By May 1948 some 12,500 women had been found and restored to their families. Ironically, and tragically,  many of the women did not want to be rescued, for after their seizure they had made some kind of peace with their new surroundings. Now, as they were being reclaimed, these women were deeply unsure about how their original families would receive them. They had been "defiled" and, in a further complication, many were pregnant. These women knew that even if they were acepted, their children -- born out of a union with the "enemy" -- would never be. Often, the police and their accomplices had to use force to take the women away. "You could not save us then," said the women; "what right have you to comple us now?"