South Asian Partition Fiction in English

This monograph explores a significant cross-section of South-Asian fiction in English written on the theme of Partition from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s, and shows how the Partition novel in English traverses a very interesting trajectory during this time, with writers from different generations offering a wide array of perspectives on this defining event of modern South-Asian history - from just 'reporting' the cataclysmic event to theorizing about it.The six novels selected for study (Khus