International Journal of English Research

Authors
Dr. Mahesh Singh

Abstract
The partition of the Indian subcontinent on the communal basis into the sovereign states of India and Pakistan on the eve of her freedom after a long period of slavery and indescribable hardships on August 15, 1947 caused one of the bloodiest upheavals in the history of human race. It provides immense material for fictional treatment. Both Indian and English writers artistically recreate some important politico - historical events of the past, while providing, at the same time, the novelist's interpretation of a historical moment. The misery displacement, the huge loss, sufferings that was experienced by the people was recorded. Some writers have directly suffered due to partition. Ice Candy Man by Bapsi Sidva, Train to Pakistan by Kushwant Singh, Azadi by Chaman Nahal, A Bend in the Ganges by Manohar Malgokar etc. are taken for study. All these novelists taken for the study had lived, witnessed and experienced the nerve of India during partition and declaration of independence and partition tragedy etc. have been projected in their novels with full reliability.