Sadat Manto’s Toba Tek Singh Sadat Manto‟s thinking about Partition is “of (raped women’s) bloated bellies—what will happen to those bellies?” Would the offspring “belong” to Pakistan or India?”(www.livemint.com) He is perhaps one of the most sarcastic witnesses to the gruesome genocide that accompanied the birth of the two nations. Sadat Manto in Toba Tek Singh offers a sharp critique on partition through his witty and double-edged metaphor of madness. The author depicts how geography and human psychic identity shares a strong emotional relationship. Toba Tek Singh crystallizes the whole anger and philosophy of the people at this occasion. Manto’s Toba Tek Singh is a account on how partition resulted in displacement and thus caused identity issues amongst people. The hero of the story preferred to die in no man‟s land rather than making a choice between Hindustan and Pakistan. In Toba Tek Singh, the author apart from questioning the two-nation theory is also calling the basic idea of nationhood as the critical basis of identity.
Yasmin Khan’s the Great Partition: the Making of India and Pakistan Yasmin Khan, a Politics Lecturer at the University of London In “The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan” strongly confesses how this political decision affected the lives of common masses. In the name of religious cleansing, people were forced to migrate to the other side of the border. Punjabi Muslims who opposed pressure were removed by Pakistan Military. Many people buried their jewels near their ancestral homes, thinking that they will come back to their native places once the violence will slow down. People were not ready to move as their identities were emotionally related with their native places. Eventually, partition led many migrants ending up losing their lives, homes, property and their loved ones. Once, Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, , the then Prime Minister Of India, who supported partition, visited a filthy refugee camp, a grief-stricken young man came to him and slapped him on his face and yelled at him. People were suffering because of hunger, medical facilities and basic amenities as local shops and hospitals were hard to find due to communal pressures and curfews.
Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan Khushwant Singh‟s Train to Pakistan, describes the division of a united India in to a “Hindu India and a Muslim Pakistan”, through an omniscient narrator. It highlights the pointlessness of blaming the other religious group for the ill-fated event “Muslims said the Hindus had planned and started the killing. According to the Hindus, the Muslims were to blame” (Singh 1). According to him, “The fact is, both sides killed. Both shot and stubbed and speared and clubbed. Both tortured. Both raped” (Singh 1). The novel opens in an imaginary village Mano Majra, a village on the IndoPak border, illustrating how it gets involved in the bloodshed and carnage during the partition. Train to Pakistan pictures an emotional description of the tragedy of Partition where initially the environment was peaceful and villagers belonging to different sects lived happily together. In Train to Pakistan the social setting revealed that Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims made the traditional set up of the Punjabi society in the pre-partition India. Culture, language and customs contributed to the larger Punjabi identity though at a certain level was divided into communal identity
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