A critical watershed in the history of the subcontinent, the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 reverberates through the socio-political and cultural discourses of India via a twofold process of implosion and explosion. The dialectics of this embedding has drawn a host of creative and critical minds in its vortex and has exercised the literary imagination of the sub-continent. The very nature of the socio-historical arrangements and ideological idioms ...
