7 Must-Read Fictional Books on Partition of India

Jun 28, 2023, 12:30 IST

Riya Teotia

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The book is very aptly named because it shows the reader how the novel travels through time and tales, through various perspectives and memories. The stories are in bits and pieces, half real and half imaginary.

The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh

Midnight’s Children starts with a child being born on the midnight of 15th August 1947. The child is, of course, a parallel for India. It is one of the true classics which deals with India's partition.

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

This story will leave the reader in tears with its powerful satire on the relationship between India and Pakistan and the condition of the inmates of asylum in Lahore.

Toba Tek Singh by Saddat Hasan Manto

Sunlight on a Broken Column presents a political insight and evokes the sentimental memories of independent and partitioned India.

Sunlight on a Broken Column by Attia Hosain

The book was later named Cracking India. The book is about the voice of minorities of minority, Parsis, and about how they dealt with the partition of India and Pakistan.

Ice Candy Man by Bapsi Sidhwa

Pinjar revolves around the world of a Hindu girl called Puro who is kidnapped by a Muslim man called Rashid. Puro’s parents refuse to accept her back as she is now ‘impure’ after she manages to escape from Rashid’s grasp.

Pinjar by Amrita Pritam

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