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Item Gendered Violence and Women’s Trauma: A Reading of Traumatic Experiences in Sidhwa’s Cracking India and Malgonkar’s A Bend in the Ganges(Faculty of English, 2023) Gajurel, MadhavThe study of Indo-Pakistan partition violence has undergone a dramatic transformation since the mid-1980s. A profusion of scholarly activity in this area has led to two new interpretations and revisiting of the traumatic moments during Indo-Pakistan partition period made essential. The escalation of communal violence and the subsequent migration that over took the two new nations created a tumultuous start for the embryonic nation- states. This research examines the experiences of partition violence in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India and Manohar Malgonkar’s A Bend in the Ganges. Written and published at different post partition historical moments, these texts examine the gendered violence upon women. The objectives of this dissertation are to highlight some compelling questions relating to rape, abduction and silence of women during partition. Could there be an alternative optimistic way of such colonization without communal violence? Was cross migration necessary? Why were women killed by their own men? Was the motive of partition achieved? Who took the responsibility of women victims who were raped by men of other community? Gendered violence and ensuing trauma focused on the people’s revolution for the liberation of their civilizations. Poor became the tools of success for elites and ignited to fight against themselves. Sentiments of poor have been used and throw like garbage. Gendered violence have created people’s habitat, a deserted land without a hope of life as seen in the novel. This dissertation carries out an investigation of the fictional representation of the anatomy of communal violence during partition. Keywords: Gender, Trauma, Violence, Partition, Rape, Abduction, Religion, Women victim, Silence.Item Gendered Violence and Women’s Trauma: A Reading of Traumatic Experiences in Sidhwa’s Cracking Indiaand Malgonkar’s A Bend in the Ganges(Department of English, 2023) Gajurel, MadhavThe study of Indo-Pakistan partition violence has undergone a dramatic transformation since the mid-1980s. A profusion of scholarly activity in this area has led to two new interpretations and revisiting of the traumatic moments during Indo-Pakistan partition period made essential. The escalation of communal violence and the subsequent migration that over took the two new nations created a tumultuous start for the embryonic nation- states. This research examines the experiences of partition violence in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India and Manohar Malgonkar’s A Bend in the Ganges. Written and published at different post partition historical moments, these texts examine the gendered violence upon women. The objectives of this dissertation are to highlight some compelling questions relating to rape, abduction and silence of women during partition. Could there be an alternative optimistic way of such colonization without communal violence? Was cross migration necessary? Why were women killed by their own men? Was the motive of partition achieved? Who took the responsibility of women victims who were raped by men of other community? Gendered violence and ensuing trauma focused on the people’s revolution for the liberation of their civilizations. Poor became the tools of success for elites and ignited to fight against themselves. Sentiments of poor have been used and throw like garbage. Gendered violence have created people’s habitat, a deserted land without a hope of life as seen in the novel. This dissertation carries out an investigation of the fictional representation of the anatomy of communal violence during partition. Keywords: Gender, Trauma, Violence, Partition, Rape, Abduction, Religion, Women victim, Silence.Item Partition and Postmemory in JhumpaLahiri’sInterpreter of Maladies(Central Department of English, 2019) Neupane, BikramThe research paper delves intotheindividual,inter-and transgenerational transmission of experiencesinJhumpa Lahiri’sInterpreter of Maladiesthrough the lens of postmemory. Itanalyzes the selected four stories of theshort story collectionInterpreter of Maladiesthat are“WhenMr.Prizzadacame to Dine”,“Miss. Sen”,“A Real Durwan”and “The Third and Final Continent”.These stories explore the historyof 1947 partitioning of the Indian subcontinent and the suffering of the diaspora in the host country.Moreover, selected stories representthe historical incidents in the present. Implicating the Postmemory in the literary text helps to bring historical events in the present discussion. It broadens the new perspectives of the understanding historical events and its aftermath.This thesis argues that Lahiri portrays the world of her lived and inheritedexperiences which are occupied bythe transmission of knowledge throughtheearlier generation and helps inanalyzing how those incidents continue to affect on the second generation whohaswitnessed the suffering of an earlier generation. This researchthuscontributes totheemerging issues on the effect of partition and its aftermath in the life of diaspora that has still continuedand transmitted to latergenerations. Key Words:Memory,Partition,Post memory, Second generationItem Representation of Partition Trauma: A Comparative Study of Nahal's Azadi and Sidhwa's Ice-Candy Man(Central Department of English, 2019) Bhatt, Bhagarati KumarThe split between India and Pakistan served to heighten each other's hostilities instead of bringing peace in the both independent countries. Millions of people were affected by such hostilities. During that violence, there is the scene of home burnt down, villages abandoned, child abducted, women were embarrassed of the sexual humiliation and they compelled to suicide because their family refuse to accept them. The destruction of family through murder, suicide and kidnapping are the main cause of grievous trauma of partition which Chaman Nahal and Bapsi Sidhwa very clearly focus in their novel Azadi and Ice Candy Man. But the problem is there; both writers use the prose of otherness to demonize the opposite community. Nahal projects that Muslims are responsible for the eruption of the partition violence. In his novel, he presents the tragic story of Hindus and Sikhs refugee who are originally belonging from Sialkot, Pakistan but forcefully avoid their ancestral home. Nahal's novel shows Hindus and Sikhs are suffering from Partition. Similarly, Sidhwa presents the tragic story of Hindu sand Muslims people in Lahore. She clearly mentions that during partition Muslims and Pakistan have suffered. Therefore, these types of representation of their work show the possibility of identity politics of author in their novel Azadi and Ice-Candy Man. Key Words: Cultural Trauma, Partition, violence, prose of othernessItem Stereotype of the Muslim and Marginalized Shikh in Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan(Department of English, 2021) Joshi, Nidhi NarayanThis research paper exploresthe Muslim and marginalized Sikhsuffering stereotype duringthe 1947 partition movement. It highlights perception of the contemporary government concerning two nation theory amid diverse popular will and investigates how the discriminatory conductof bureaucracy leads the people living in Mano Majra to a tragic separation.Taking theoretical concept of Speech Act proposed by John LangshawAustin and David Crystal, this research projects how Shushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan articulates domination of the mainstream politics on weaker tenants. Similarly, the same idea (Speech Act Theory) proposed by Kent Bach has also been included in the research. The entire research revolves around particularly two victims: Iqbal and Juggat Singh, who lose their voice and suffer a dire tragedy. The research also reveals monopoly of the elite class who live a sophisticated life being indifferent towards the political upheaval around.