Table of Contents

Contents - 8[-]Acknowledgements - 10[-]Introduction - 14[-]1. Partition: The Holocaust[-] - 34[-]2. Women during the Partition: Victim and agent[-] - 64[-]3. The making of a nation: Religion or language?[-] - 90[-]4. Imagined communities: Questioning the border[-] - 112[-]Conclusion - 132[-]Glossary - 140[-]Notes - 142[-]Bibliography - 164[-]Index - 172

About the Author

Rituparna Roy has been a Lecturer in English Literature at Basantidevi College, Kolkata, India; and recently, an Affiliated Fellow at The International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Amsterdam. She is the author of South Asian Partition Fiction in English: From Khushwant Singh to Amitav Ghosh, Amsterdam University Press, 2010.

Reviews

'The representation of the traumatic event of Partition in Indian literature in English is both an enduring theme in Indian writing as well as, paradoxically, an under-researched topic. By a fresh reading of six novels as representative of the various perspectives on the event, and placing them in a larger historical and literary context, Roy's book fills an important lacuna in current criticism, and does it convincingly.'-- Peter Liebregts, Professor of Modern Literatures in English, Leiden University[-][-]'In this rightly thoughtful and thoroughly readable book, Rituparna Roy looks at fictional representations of the cataclysmic birth-pangs of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, and indicates how literary visions mesh in with reportage, historiography, nationhood, femininity and personal identity.'--Subir Dhar, Professor of English and Director of the School of Languages & Culture at Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, India. Honorary Director of the Tagore-Gandhi Centre at the same University[-]