The Gist of Political and Historical Events in the Weary Generations by Aykut KİŞMİR

“…The writer tells the major incidents that took place in India between World War I and the partition of India The novel also frequently depicts the circumstances prior to the partition of India. …”
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The Narrative of Manufactured Division and Artificial Segregation in Train to Pakistan and Cracking India by Sheikh Zobaer

“…Indian author Khushwant Singh’s novel Train to Pakistan, and Pakistani author Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel cracking India recount the events of the partition of India. Both the novels are written against the backdrop of India’s partition from different perspectives. …”
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Unsettling silences : the trauma of witnessing in Manto's "cold meat" and "open it". by Lim, Rebecca Sim Ming.

“…The history of the Partition of India is characterized by the senseless violence that erupted across India and Pakistan in the form of rapes, abductions, forced exiles, and murder. …”
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Unsettling silences : the trauma of witnessing in Manto's "cold meat" and "open it" by Lim, Rebecca Sim Ming

“…The history of the Partition of India is characterized by the senseless violence that erupted across India and Pakistan in the form of rapes, abductions, forced exiles, and murder. …”
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MEMORY AND NEGOTIATIONS OF IDENTITY IN TRAIN TO PAKISTAN by Giuseppe De Riso

“…This article focuses on Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan to analyse the negotiations of identity among different ethnic communities at the time of the Partition between India and Pakistan which occurred in August 1947. …”
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The Qur’an in South Asia by Kamran Ahmad Khan

“…He focuses mainly on the Muslim scholars Sayyid Aḥmad Khān (d. 1898), Ashraf ʿAlī Thānawī (d. 1943) and Ḥamīd al-Dīn Farāhī (d. 1930), who wrote extensively on approaches to understanding the Qur’an after the mutiny/uprising that occurred in 1857 and the partition of India in 1947. …”
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Dilemmas of Diaspora: Partition, Refugees, and the Politics of “Home” by Pablo Bose

“…The following paper explores the idea of “refugee diasporas” by focusing on a case study of the Hindu Bengali exodus from East Pakistan (later Bangladesh) following the 1947 British Partition of India. The author begins by problematizing and historicizing definitions of diasporas in general and refugee diasporas in particular and then uses the case study to illustrate the diversity in experiences that different groups that emerged from the Partition encountered. …”
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Locating the Storyteller in Silent Waters: Sabiha Sumar’s Cinematic Tale of Shared Histories and Divided Identities by Rahat Imran

“…In her multi award-winning feature film Silent Waters (2003), Pakistani woman filmmaker Sabiha Sumar connects the socio-political traumas of the Partition of India and creation of Pakistan (1947) with the onset of military dictator General Zia-ul-Haq’s Islamization period (1977-1988) in Pakistan. …”
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Partition, Migration, and Jute Cultivation in India. by Bharadwaj, P, Fenske, J

“…We show that refugees can play positive roles in receiving economies by looking at the partition of India. We use an instrumental variables (IV) strategy to show that migrants played a major part in India's take-up of jute cultivation. …”

Manto's legendary contribution to partition literature of India by Akram, Lubna, Hanifa, Mohamed Ali, Rathakrishnan, Mohan

“…This article discusses the consequences of the partition of India that was explored from the perspective of Manto’s writing on the major aspects of the partition. …”
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Manufacturing Polarisation in Contemporary India: The Case of Identity Politics in Post-Left Bengal by Suman Nath, Subhoprotim Roy Chowdhury

“…Although West Bengal experienced riots during the partition of India, it remained unaffected during the subsequent three decades of Left rule. …”
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Religious Division and Otherness as Portrayed in 'Shame' and 'The Ministry of Utmost Happiness' by Sheikh Zobaer

“… After the partition of India in 1947, religion has become a major catalyst for division and othering in most of South Asia. …”
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Mustafa Karim’s as a Fiction Writer: An Overview by Dr. Allah Yar Saqib, Dr. Saira Irshad

“…His fictions are excellent in terms of technical, artistic and thematic aspects, while the themes are East and West society, World War I and II, partition of India, migration problems, violence in religions, human tolerance, class division and psychology, problems of immigrants. , made the theme of sexual freedom and promiscuity. …”
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Raconter la Partition de l’Inde : une impossible histoire des femmes ? by Anne Castaing

“…After many years subjected to a vision of history dedicated to the glorification of the nation, the Partition of India (1947) has attracted renewed interest in the last thirty years or so, aiming to shed as much light as possible on this popular tragedy and its subaltern histories. …”
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The Influence of the Partition on the Indian Family in Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day by Noor Isa Abdullatif, Isra Hashim Taher

“…Anita Desai's Clear Light of Day (1980) is a partition novel which depicts the influence of the Partition between India and Pakistan on the unity of the Indian family. …”
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The Domestic Sphere in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961): The Home Mirrors the World. by Arunima Dey

“…In essence, the article argues that Hosain partakes in an alternate, gynocentric narrative of the partition of India. …”
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Roots of Power and Resistance by Munasir Kamal, Soumya Sarker

“…This paper comparatively analyses the original novel and its transcreation, examining the works in the context of the Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, a division based on religion – the chief of source of Majeed’s power. …”
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"Why Did We Have the Partition?" The Making of a Research Interest by Satish Saberwal

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Identity construction in the South Asian diaspora in Singapore in the process of decolonisation : from post-war to independence (c. 1945–1965) by Al-Mehraaj Mohamed Rahim

“…The study shows that it was in the long process of decolonisation of both South Asia and Southeast Asia, particularly after the Partition of India in 1947, that identities experienced significant shifts. …”
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Indo–French Defence Cooperation in the Light of Regional Security Balance in South Asia by Mukesh Shankar Bharti

“…The article aims to describe the regional security challenges to India in South Asia. Since the partition of India in 1947, the country has continuously been under external threat as a form of proxy warfare and terrorism. …”
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