Partition and Nationhood in Khuswanth Singh and Amitav Ghosh’s Select Works

Name of Author : Shain K K

Abstract: This present study portrays the Partition and Nationhood in the Novels of in Indian English Khuswanth Singh and Amitav Ghosh. The partition of India and agony of the people became the theme of Indian English literature. The novels of partition deal with communal violence and miserable migration of people across the newly created national borders. The nation went through a curtail crises of evolution and identity. The paper attempts to read the novels of the writers like Kuswanth Singh, Amitav Ghosh, focussing on their views on partition and the problem of nationhood in a postcolonial perspective.

Keywords : Partition, Nationhood, Evolution, Postcolonial, Violence

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