Volume : IV, Issue : V, June - 2014 WITNESSING THE PAST : CHAMANNAHALS AZADIVikram S. Kharb, Ritu By : Laxmi Book Publication Abstract : Past repeats itself, time and again, in the shape of the historical fiction. A historical novel is a
colourful canvass on which characters, both real and imaginary, are constructed. Siobhan Lyons
says,“Because history can be seen to be a malleable artefact, it proves to be a most useful tool to employ
when writing fiction. And because history is often chaotic, fiction can be seen as perhaps the only way to
approach it. By fictionalizing it, to an extent, a writer admits to his/her own limitations in constructing the
past via the present context”(WEB).In the historical novels, previously existing characters, incidents and
circumstances re-emerge and are reinterpreted through the intellectual machinations of the novelists. Of
these, the few novels which came out in the 1960's and 70's, such as Khushwant Singh's Train to
Pakistan(1961) or, more famously,ChamanNahal'sAzadi(1975) bore the responsibility of describing the
fratricidal violenceat the time of the partition of India in 1947. Regarding the bifurcation of India,
Gandhiji declares,“the vivisection of India is like the vivisection of my own body”, Nehru says that by
“cutting of the head we will get rid of the headache”, whereas Jinnah endorses partition comparing it to “a
surgicaloperation”. Hence K. R. SrinivasaIyenger aptly opines, “The leaders had sowed the wind of
communal suspicion and partition was the result; like a whirlwind, the mad act of partition was uprooting
masses of humanity, mangling them and throwing them across the border heap after heap”(498). Keywords : Article : Cite This Article : Vikram S. Kharb, Ritu(2014). WITNESSING THE PAST : CHAMANNAHALS AZADI. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. IV, Issue. V, http://isrj.org/UploadedData/4967.pdf References : - Nahal, Chaman. Azadi.,New Delhi: Arnold Heinemann, 1976. Print.
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