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Acknowledgements; Preface; Introduction: The Trauma of Partition—PART I: Partition and Its Fallouts—1. Partition Narratives—PART II: Men’s Voices: Male Perspectives on Partition—2. The Treatment of Politics; 3. The Trauma of Separation and of Ruptured Identity; 4. The Representation of Violence, of its Source and Antidote—PART III: Women’s Voices: Female Perspectives on Partition—5. ‘An Alternative Archive of Partition’: Attia Hosain’s Sunlight on a Broken Column; 6. The Distant Echoes of Partition: Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day; 7. Shifting Identities, Women and Nation Building: Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy-Man; 8. An Allegorical Approach to Partition: Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers; 9. A Second Generation’s Look at the Partition of India: Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters; 10. A ‘Decentralized’ Perspective on Partition: Mumtaz Shah Nawaz’s The Heart Divided, Mehr Nigar Masroor’s Shadows of Time, Sophia Mustafa’s Broken Reed, Anita Kumar’s The Night of the Seven Dawns; Conclusion; Bibliography