Indian partition fiction in English and in English translation
Subtitle: a text on Hindu-Muslim relationship
By: Basudeb Chakraborti. ; with a foreword by G.K. Das.
Publisher: Papyrus
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Kolkata
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Indic fiction (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Indic fiction -- 20th century -- Translations into English -- History and criticism; Partition, Territorial, in literature; Muslims in literature; Hindus in literature; Ethnicity in literature; India -- History -- Partition, 1947
Description: To  examine the Indian partition fiction in English and in English translation in relation to consequences of  the partition was one of the author's aims  as he was a victim of the partition in 1947.The author was born in Calcutta in January 1948 immediately after the communal divide of this country.Since his infancy ,he breathed  in a family environment  of harrowing  tales of emotional suffering,immeasurable  loss of property and writhing  pain of rootlessness.Day after day,month after month ,year after year  he heard his grand father recall nostalgically his association with the "Anushilan Samity",his pride in being imprisoned and his determined  stuggle for the freedom of India.Mahatma Gandhi visited Noakhali,now in Bangladesh,in 1946 and spent a night in the author's  ancestral  house at Deopara.The author heard every detail of the conversation  between his grandfather and Mahatma Gandhi at least  two hundred times if not more.The traumatic effect of  the Indian partition has been ingrained in the author's emotional life since his boyhood.The partition of India in 1947,the author confesses,is his obsession.In addition ,this obsession went deep into his inner self during his one-year stay at Noakhali in 1956 when the Passport  and the Visa formalities had not been introduced. Feelings of anguish  at the fact of partition  and of  happiness in the shared memories of  his  life at Noakhali  clash in  author's mind and he thanks himself for having been able to write this book on partition fiction in the context of the Indian partition history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-174) and index.
Table of contents: title: Historicity of the Indian Partition in 1947, Crisis of Identity and Partition Fiction, Bestiality in the Communal Behaviour  and Indian Partition Fiction, The Triumph of Human Values and Partition Fiction, Conclusion.