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Sep 24, 2024 · About the author: Hyder (1927-2007) was an Indian Urdu novelist, short story writer, academic, and journalist. She is best known for her novel Aag Ka Darya (English translation: River of Fire), published in 1959, which traces the history of the Indian subcontinent from the fourth century BC, through to partition.
Mar 1, 2024 · March 1, 2024. NTF21. The partition of British India in 1947 into the independent nations of India and Pakistan remains one of the most significant events in modern history, leaving a profound impact on the lives of millions and shaping the socio-political landscape of the region. Literature has played a vital role in capturing and reflecting ...
Jun 22, 2015 · Cyril Radcliffe, a British judge assigned to draw the borders of the two new states, was given barely forty days to remake the map of South Asia. The borders were finally announced two days after ...
Aug 7, 2020 · Trauma has been central to representations of Partition in literature and theory, and it is here that books and reading (or, rereading Manto) take effect—here, I argue that Tabish Khair’s Filming, a novel that has as its central concern the question of literature’s representation of Partition, employs literature (books and reading) as a route through trauma by conveying Batin’s future ...
- Jenni Ramone
- jenni.ramone@ntu.ac.uk
- 2020
Partition in Indian and Pakistani Novels in English FRANCES HARRISON Partition Literature:. .any writing that poses or attempts to answer or even pursue a question inspired directly or indirectly by the Partition must be included within the body of Partition Literature.'1 PARTITION is a term that suggests an easy and peaceful division of territory.
Jul 26, 2017 · Partition is commonly understood as the division of a state into two or more entities, where at least one successor states assumes continuity with the pre-divided whole. The most famous partition cases in modern history formed part of British devolvement or decolonization—in Ireland (1919), India (1947) and Palestine (1948)—and arose as a ...
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Dec 26, 2022 · Ma, the central figure in the novel, an eighty-year-old widow, spends more than a hundred pages of the book lying in bed, her back to the reader, before finally, heroically, reclaiming her life ...
