Stories About the Partition of
India (Vols. I-III)
By- Alok Bhalla (ed.)
When the first three volumes of the Stories
about the Partition of India were published more than a decade ago,
they were widely acknowledged as the most comprehensive collection of texts in
English translations from the three countries of the subcontinent. Ever since
then, the anthology has remained an invaluable resource for historical and
literary studies trying to understand the politics of religious identities,
colonial predatoriness, linguistic chauvinism, or the partitions of large
states to resolve ethnic conflicts anywhere. The new edition of the collection
enlarges the range of the anthology by adding a fourth volume which includes a
large number of stories from Bengali and Sindhi that speak eloquently about the
continuing sorrows of separatist and fundamentalist world-views which destroy
old neighbourhoods, encourage despair and add to human misery. The additional
volume should enable scholars to add fresh insights into the history of the
partition as it affected two regions which have yet not become the subject of
serious literary and archival research. The anthology is further enriched by
including stories by many of the finest writers in Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi
which have become available only recently in English translations. This volume
has also made a special effort to include more stories by major women writers
from different languages like Qurratulain Hyder, Khadija Mastur, Popati
Hiranandani, Dalip Kaur Tiwana, Nisha Da Cunha, Rajee Seth, Farkhanda Lodhi and
Syeda Farida Rahman.
In a review of the first edition
of this collection, the New York Times said that Alok Bhalla’s
anthology had done a “fine…job of evoking the terror, the bewilderment and the
remorse that still shadow so many lives on the subcontinent.”
Alok Bhalla obtained
his Ph.D from Kent State University, USA. He was a Lady Davis Visiting
Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Fellow at the Rockefeller Centre,
Bellagio, Italy and Fellow at the IIAS, Shimla.
ISBN 978-81-7304-935-4 2012 796p.
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