Resistance against Colonialim in Kamleshwar’s Partition

Abstract

The present research attempts to analyse the implication of the discussion of the historical facts of Indian history in the novel Partition(2000) by Kamleshwar, an Indian prolific writer. Kamleshwar revisits some of the historical facts in his novel Partition. He talks about the demolition of Ram mandir, a famous hindu temple of Ayodhya and the erection of Babari Masjid, the temple of Muslims. Smilarly, he remembers the first arrival of the Bretons as trader and their subsequent stay and capture of the administrative power of India making it their colony. Not only that his speaker and other characters give multiple interpretations of the historical facts. All the novel does to resist the colonial discourse. It shows their motive was business oriented in total. In stead of civilizing and saving the soul of people they just made the colonizers more barbaric and even bereft of their fundamental cultures. And their agreement and execution of India- Pakistan partition was also never to teach people democracy and to create the opportunity for self rule but to perpetuate the relentless conflict on which background colonial time could be seen peaceful and harmonious.