'The most humane account of partition I've read ...We need a candid conversation about our past and this is an essential starting point' Nikesh Shukla, Observer'The book of 2019 that ...

A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan This new edition of Yasmin Khan's reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan ...

Mottled Dawn (Paperback / softback) (9780143418313)

'Fatimah Asghar writes my heart' Riz Ahmed'Fatimah Asghar's debut collection brought me to tears many times over.It is urgent, compelling and filled with fragments of history that have ...

It's 1947, and India, newly independent of British rule, has been separated into two countries: Pakistan and India.The divide has created much tension between Hindus and Muslims, and ...

Nation-states often shape the boundaries of historical enquiry, and thus silence the very histories that have sutured nations to territorial states. "India" and "Pakistan" were drawn onto maps ...

This book interrogates representations - fiction, literary motifs and narratives - of the Partition of India.Delving into the writings of Khushwant Singh, Balachandra Rajan, Attia ...

The Indian Partition in Literature and Films

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child.However, this coincidence of birth has consequences he is not prepared for: ...

The emotion and trauma of the Partition are buried deep, but Aanchal Malhotra has found a way to recover them.Through the possessions saved by her own great-grandparents as they fled ...

In An Unrestored Woman, the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 cuts a jagged path through the lives of ordinary women and men, leaving ripples of sorrow through time and space.Each ...

This book-length poem is set at the time of the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 when thousands of people were killed in civil unrest and millions displaced, with families later split ...

An extraordinarily rich debut novel, set in India in 1947 at the time of Partition.Although the backdrop is this key event in Indian history, the novel is even more far-reaching, ...

Beginning in 1907 with the founding of a factory in Songarh, a small provincial town where narrow attitudes prevail, the story is of three generations of an Indian family, brilliantly told, in ...

Focusing on the historical and contemporary narration of the Partition of India, Violent Belongings examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards. Spanning the Indian ...

The partition of India in 1947 was a seminal event of the twentieth century.Much has been written about the Punjab and the creation of West Pakistan; by contrast, little is known about ...