Partition of India a Bitter Irony: Probe into Manohar Malgonkar’s and Salman Rushdie’s Selected Fictions
Partition of India a Bitter Irony: Probe into Manohar Malgonkar’s and Salman Rushdie’s Selected Fictions

Summary/Abstract: Partition of the Indian subcontinent created such a history, which is unforgettable for many reasons. Whether the decision of partition was right or wrong is a debatable issue, but no one can debate with the fact that this partition caused a devastating violence and an unforgettable record whose memory is yet so fresh that the people of the Indian subcontinent are still carrying the burden of it. It is quite true that partition is the determining factor in forming the destiny of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Being so relevant as a literary theme, partition has been serving as an important source for many Indian writings. Due to its circumscribed readership, Indian English fictions have been able to bring out the grim phase of partition and its after-effect in a very effective way. The communal riot, the disarray of human life, the notion of secularism and the overall consequences of the partition is a vital theme of the many postcolonial Indian English fictions. The paper will try to find out the irony of partition and its impact on the society by focusing on two fictions – Manohar Malgonkar’s A Bend in the Ganges (1964) and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1980).

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