Modes Of Socio-Political And Cultural Representation: A Critical Study Of Post- Colonial South Asian Selected English Novels

Partition of the sub-continent of India in 1947 has been dealt with by many Pakistani and Indian English language novelists. Partition affected millions of people and changed the map of the sub-continent. The countries of the region still live under its shadows. Objective of study is to investigate the portrayal of the Partition by two English language writers Bapsi Sidhwa from Pakistan and Khushwant Singh from India in their novels. Ice Candy Man and Train to Pakistan highlighted the respective perspective on partition. Partition literature explores the sexual trauma, sufferings and painful experiences of women during and after the Partition. This in many ways substantiates the fact that inequality of sexes is neither a biological fact nor a divine mandate but a cultural construct.