Partition and the Traumatic Plight of Common People: A Study of Amitav Ghosh’s Novel the Shadow Lines

Abstract

Amitav Ghosh in the novel The Shadow Lines focuses on the partition of India and the subsequent trauma of the East Bengali psyche. In the novel, the partition becomes the locus for the exploration of larger political concepts like ‘freedom’, ‘nationalism’ and for an interrogation of the concept of borders.

The partition was meant to solve the problems of social unrest whether on religious grounds or political motivation but the partition has been turning into communal violence between the two major groups Hindu and Muslim.

My objective in writing of this paper is to portray the impact of the partition that divide the people into small nations with reference to Khuswant Singh’s novel Train to Pakisthan.

The partition affects in the each and every part of human life; it affects on the humanity; it affects in the psychology of the people; it affects on the economy; it affects on the society.