Partition fiction
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Fiction: Kashmir is expected to join Pakistan after Partition, but King Hari Singh has other plans
Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
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‘Azadi’: In Chaman Nahal’s 1975 novel, the reality of the Partition dawns, and lives are destroyed
Chaman Nahal
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‘A Lost People’s Archive’ sweeps a net over Bengal’s personal, political, and cultural histories
Saloni Sharma
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A family searches for its identity as their village becomes Pakistani, then Bangladeshi, from Indian
Rashmi Narzary
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‘Dark Star’: Decisions made by men without consideration for women affect their lives and memories
Sakshi Agarwal
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Fiction: In her final days, an elderly woman remembers lifelong horrors of misogyny and nationalism
Ranbir Sidhu
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‘The Book of Everlasting Things’: A novel that is gained in imagination, squandered by the prose
Shubhangi Tiwari
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‘Hyderabad’, a novel about a state’s quest for self-rule, is a fine balance of fact and fiction
Saloni Sharma
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‘Ladies’ Tailor’: A Partition refugee tries to make a new life after losing his old one
Priya Hajela
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‘Lahore’: The first part of a trilogy shows there are still stories to be told about the Partition
Saloni Sharma
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Comradeship in love distinguishes this novel of rebuilding refugee lives after the Bengal Partition
Rituparna Roy
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This novel of Sikh lives during the Partition won the regional Commonwealth Prize 20 years ago
Oindrila Mukherjee
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This intimate look at the lives of refugees in 1947 resonates with the politics of present-day India
Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar
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This novel weaves together searing personal memories of the Partition and the anti-Sikh pogrom
Gokul S Prabhu
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Partition stories: How a family had to choose between conversion and fleeing their homeland
Sohan S Koonar
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This novel in translation imagines the Partition from the perspective of women who stayed at home
Niyati Bafna
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‘A Gujarat Here, A Gujarat There’: Krishna Sobti fictionalises her own encounter with the Partition
Krishna Sobti
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Krishna Sobti lost a childhood friend in the Partition riots and wrote about her in fiction – twice
Krishna Sobti
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In this novel, a teenager tells the story of Independence and Partition as she sees them
Veera Hiranandani
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Two novellas reacquaint us with the finest Urdu writer of our time, Intizar Husain
Annie Zaidi