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This page is meant as an educational resource and guide to
works on the topic of the Indian partition, communalism, and modern South Asian
history and literature.
The list of books and films compiled below constitutes a selective guide to some important works – in literature, film, history, and anthropology – for the cultural and historical study of Partition. This list will be updated on an ongoing basis.
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Anand, Som.
Lahore: Portrait of a Lost City
Lahore: Vanguard Books, 1998
Balachander, Rajan.
The Dark Dancer
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958
Baldwin. Shauna Singh.
What the Body Remembers
Doubleday: New York, 1999
Basu, Aparna.
Rebel With a Cause: Mridula Sarabhai, A Biography
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995
Bhalla, Alok.
Stories about the Partition of India. 3 vols
New Delhi: HarperCollins, 1994.
Bhalla, Alok.
The Life and Works of Saadat Hasan Manto
Simla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1997.
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Bhattacharjea, Ajit.
Countdown to partition: the final days
New Delhi: HarperCollins Publishers India, 1997.
Bhuchar, Sudha and Kristine Landon-Smith.
A Tainted Dawn: Images of Partition
London: Nick Hern Books, 1999.
Bose, Sugata and Ayesha Jalal.
Nationalism, Democracy & Development
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Bourke-White, Margaret.
Halfway to Freedom: A Report on the New India in the Words and Photos
of Margaret Bourke-White
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1949.
Brass, Paul R.
The Politics of India since Independence
Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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Butalia, Urvashi.
“Community, State, and Gender: on women's agency during partition.”
Economic and Political Weekly 28 (1995): 1125-1132.. ---.
The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India.
New Delhi: Viking, 1998.
Cowasjee, S. and Duggal, K. S., eds.
Orphans of the Storm: Stories on the Partition of India
New Delhi: UBS Publishers, 1995
Didur, Jill.
Unsettling Partition: Literature, Gender and Memory
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Hasan, Mushirul, ed.
India Partitioned: The Other Face of Freedom. 2 vols.
New Delhi: Roli Books, 1995.
Karaka, D. F.
Freedom Must Not Stink
Delhi: Kutub, 1948
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Kesavan, Mukul.
Looking through Glass
London: Chatto & Windus, 1995
Kidwai, Begum A.
Azadi ki Chhaon Main
Delhi: National Book Trust, 1990
Manto, Saadat Hasan.
Kingdom’s End and Other Stories. Trans. Khalid Hasan.
Delhi: Penguin, 1987.
Manto, Saadat Hasan.
Partition Sketches and Stories.
New Delhi: Viking, 1991
Manto, Saadat Hasan.
Black milk: a collection of short stories
Lahore, Pakistan Alkitab, 1956
Mathur, Ramesh and Mahendra Kulasrestha, eds.
Writings on India’s Partition
Calcutta: Simant Publications, 1976
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Memon, M. U.
An Epic Unwritten: The Penguin Book of Partition Stories.
New Delhi: Penguin, 1998
Mayaram, Shail.
“Speech, Silence, and the making of Partition Violence in Mewat.”
In Subaltern Studies IX, eds. Shahid Amin and Dipesh Chakrabarty,
35-55.
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1996
Nevile, P.
Lahore: A Sentimental Journey.
New Delhi: Penguin, 1993
Pandey, Gyan.
Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.
Rai, Alok.
"The Trauma of Independence: Some Aspects of Progressive Hindi Literature."
Journal of Arts and Ideas 6 (1984)
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Ravikant and Saint, Tarun K., eds.
Translating Partition.
New Delhi: Katha, 2001.
Sahni, Bhisham.
Tamas [English tr.]
New Delhi: Penguin, 1988
Salim, Ahmad.
Lahore 1947
New Delhi: India Research Press, 2001
Sidhwa, Bapsi.
Cracking India
Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 1991
Singh, Khushdeva.
Love is Stronger than Hate (A Remembrance of 1947)
Patiala, India: Guru Nanak Mission, 1973
Singh, Khushwant.
Train To Pakistan. 1956
New Delhi: Ravi Dayal and Orient Longman, 1997
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