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Volume : II, Issue : XI, December - 2012 THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA OF PARTITIONED INDIA: A STUDY OF KHUSHWANT SINGH'S 'TRAIN TO PAKISTAN' AND AMITAV GHOSH'S 'THE SHADOW LINES' MOSARRAF HOSSAIN DOI : 10.9780/22307850, Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : India, once called 'Golden Bird' and the country of 'Unity in Diversity' got
partitioned in 1947. It is not only the nation that has been divided but also the feelings;
love and unity of the innocent citizens of the country got butchered. This is the fact which
continuously haunts me as an Indian whenever I read these two novels – Khushwant
Singh's 'Train to Pakistan' (1956) and Amitav Ghosh's 'The Shadow Lines (1988)'. The
present paper is a humble endeavour to focus on the psychological trauma and the
violence that the partitioned India had to suffer and how that has been vividly chronicled
by these two novels. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : MOSARRAF HOSSAIN, (2012). THE PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA OF PARTITIONED INDIA: A STUDY OF KHUSHWANT SINGH'S 'TRAIN TO PAKISTAN' AND AMITAV GHOSH'S 'THE SHADOW LINES'. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. XI, DOI : 10.9780/22307850, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1825.pdf References : - Dubey, S.K. “Khuswant Singh: A critical Study of his Novels” [B.R. Publishing Corp. New Delhi, 1999]
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