Abstract
Perhaps no piece of writing captures the sense of tragedy and trauma of the
turbulent times of independence of Pakistan in 1947 as Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice Candy
Man. In this paper, mainly engaging with this work, and referring to Sidhwa’s
other works and some partition narratives from Urdu writers, I foreground the
Partition of India and the politics surrounding it as resulting into the creation of a
postcolonial Pakistan. Of particular focus are the political machinations of
Mountbatten, Nehru and Patel to cripple Pakistan by depriving it of its rightful
assets as reflected in a number of fiction and non-fiction works, including the one
under study in the present paper. I have not only contextualized Sidhwa’s work in
history but also in other literary works published in English (e.g., Khushwant
Singh’s Train to Pakistan, 1956) and Urdu (e.g., Abdullah Hussain’s Udas Naslein,
2010).
Dr. Munawar Iqbal Ahmad. (2015) PARTITION AND THE MAKING OF POST-COLONIAL PAKISTAN: A STUDY OF CREATIVE RESPONSE IN ENGLISH AND URDU1, Mayar , Volume 13-14, Issue 1.
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