Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Unsettling Partition 1
5. 1. ‘Making Men for the India of Tomorrow’? Gender and Nationalist Discourse in South Asia 21
6. 2. Fragments of Imagination: Rethinking the Literary in Historiography through Narratives of India’s Partition 42
7. 3. Cracking the Nation: Memory, Minorities, and the Ends of Narrative in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India 67
8. 4. A Heart Divided: Education, Romance, and the Domestic Sphere in Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column 94
9. 5. At a Loss for Words: Reading the Silence in South Asian Women’s Partition Narratives 125
10. Conclusion: Recovering the Nation? 157
11. Appendix A 163
12. Notes 165
13. Bibliography 181
14. Index 197