Memory, History and Fictional Representations of the Partition

Alok Bhalla
Economic and Political Weekly
1999
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Summary: 
The violence that accompanied India's partition in 1947 was of such fiendishness that it has defied understanding. Fictional writings about this period express this bewilderment. They also portray pre-partition times of tolerance. The writers deal with the violence itself in different ways - redemptively, pessimistically or cynically. A survey. www.jstor.org/stable/4408572
Language: 
English