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With the announcement of partition in 1947, the Indian sub-continent moved away from the unique ideal of non-violence. The partition holocaust wrought havoc on all as communalism made people go berserk. The tragic and momentous event has stirred the creative imagination of many an Indian English writer. However, Kushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan, Chaman Nahal’s Azadi, Bhisham Sahni’s Tamas and Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy Man have been chosen for the ...
This book on new globalism offers revisionist readings of a post-postcolonial world where nations and nationalities engage in conversation even in periods of open of covert conflict. The essays collected in this volume take a post-Orientalist, post-nationalist, and post-historicist approach to a historically colonial issue: cultural encounters between nations and nationalities. Traditionally, the issue is framed as a conflict between the native forces o ...