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Volume : III, Issue : IV, May - 2013 COMPARATIVE STUDY OF AMITAV GHOSH'S THE SHADOW LINES AND MUMTAZ SHAH NAWAZ'S THE HEART DIVIDED NAZIYA MAJID DOI : 10.9780/22307850, Published By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Most of the former colonies were awakening to a new light of independence as
the British Empire was falling into oblivion. However, one country among these colonies
was undergoing a dual process of breaking and making. It was India. The partition of
India into two separate states was a momentous event in the history of the world. The
1947 partition lingers as a contemporary phenomenon, rather than a bygone event. This
is corroborated by the fact that several works regarding partition are surfacing and
becoming a part of the genre of postcolonial literature.
On the Indian side, many writers have tried to spawn a diverse perspective of
this particular historical event. For a majority of Indian writers like Manohar
Malgonkar, B Rajan, Chaman Nahal, Khushwant Singh, Attia Hosain and others, the
partition implied an act of betrayal of the national cause by the so-called 'separatist'
Muslims. These writers sympathize with the Indian cause in one way or the other. The
Pakistani's visualized the partition as a necessary step towards the realization of
nationhood and a safe homeland for South Asian Muslims. While India celebrated
Independence from British rule, Pakistan hailed it as a freedom from Britain as well as
India. But unfortunately very few writers like Mehr Nigar, Mumtaz Shah Nawaz and
Bapsi Sidhwa from Pakistani side have put forth their version of the holocaust of
partition. Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : NAZIYA MAJID, (2013). COMPARATIVE STUDY OF AMITAV GHOSH'S THE SHADOW LINES AND MUMTAZ SHAH NAWAZ'S THE HEART DIVIDED. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. III, Issue. IV, DOI : 10.9780/22307850, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/2340.pdf References : - Bhatt Indira, and Indira Nityanandam, eds. The Fiction of Amitav Ghosh. New Delhi: Creative Books, 2001.
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