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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 ...
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 ...
Oct 21, 2021 · Partition literature is a nuanced depiction of the tragedy of Partition, a period in India’s history that is very hard to make sense of. It is an amalgamation of history, conflict studies, border studies, and politics. The multi-layered dynamics of the Partition of India, not only the political but also its metaphoric and symbolic relevance ...
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Sep 20, 2023 · The microcosm of Lahore, of one little girl’s heterogenous, syncretic world is shattered into smithereens by Partition. Sidhwa’s novel has been required reading for ages, and has been turned into a moving film by Canada’s Deepa Mehta with music by A.R. Rehman. M. S. Sathyu, Garam Hava.
Partition must be included within the body of Partition Literature.'1 PARTITION is a term that suggests an easy and peaceful division of territory. Instead, India's Partition on 15 August 1947 resulted in a holocaust. One million people in Northern India were killed in brutal and primitive ways. The largest two way land migration in history ...
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 ...
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t period to an entirely new generation in 2022 and beyond who are a part of a new global world. The focus should be on the content in history and pedagogy that includes literature and cinema on. partition and helps to bring a higher level of sensitivity and empathy to understand partition.Keywords: Forced Displacement, Partition, Mass Migrat.