Memory, history and fictional representations of the partition
- 1999
- p.3119-128
- 30 Oct
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. - Reproduced