Bend in The Ganges: A Trauma of Partition

Abstract

Abstract

Partition of Indian is one of the most influential events for Indian. This traumatic event affected Indian Literature directly or indirectly. The Partition and the freedom of India bring misery to millions of people on both the sides of the border for no fault of their own. Most of Indian Fiction writers including Raja Rao, R. K. Narayan and Mulk Raj Anand were also deeply anguished with this. The second generation writers like Khushwant Singh, Amitav Ghosh and Manohar Malgonkar presented this holocaustic event very painfully and truthfully that followed in the wake of the partition of the country. It was indeed one of the bloodiest upheavals of history that claimed innumerable innocent lives and loss of property. The civil war during the Partition took the shape of a religious war between Hindus and Muslims and the whole country in an unparalleled mass destruction