Translating Partition

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Katha, 2001 - Literary Collections - 238 pages
This collection is about those on the wrong side of the border. Apart from offering a perspective on displaced people and communities, the stories talk about people as religious and linguistic minorities in post-Partition India and Pakistan. These narratives offer insights into individual experience, and break the silence of the collective sphere.

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Contents

How Many Pakistans? by Kamleshwar
11
Pali by Bhisham Sahni
29
Dream Images by Surendra Prakash
53
Toba Tek Singh by Saadat Hasan Manto
63
Thirst of Rivers by Joginder Paul
79
Pandit Mantos First Letter to Pandit Nehru by Saadat Hasan Manto
87
Critical Comment
94
An Overview by Stuti Khanna
104
Partition Overview
129
Some Observations by Arjun Mahey
135
Strategies of Oblivion Ways of Remembering by Ravikant
159
The Daily Reality of Partition
175
The Woman Protagonist in Partition Literature by Bodh Prakash
194
Select Annotated Bibliography
220
List of Select Fiction
227
Index
235

Pali and Communalism Today by Anuradha Marwah Roy
112
Memory as Metaphor in Dream Images
120

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