Memories of Partition: Revisiting Saadat Hasan Manto Author(s): SUDHA TIWARI Source: Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 48, No. 25 (JUNE 22, 2013), pp. 50-58 Published by: Economic and Political Weekly Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/23527974 Accessed: 25-03-2020 10:31 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms Economic and Political Weekly is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Economic and Political Weekly This content downloaded from 103.50.151.143 on Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:31:54 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms SPECIAL ARTICLE Memories of Partition Revisiting Saadat Hasan Manto SUDHA TIWARI 2012 was the birth centenary ofSaadat Hasan Introduction Manto and was celebrated in Lahore, Karachi, New York, and his torical events of the 20th century. In the ferocious mas own "muse" Bombay (now Mumbai). This is an attempt The partition sacres that of Indiafollowed was atone least of theone mostmillion important Hindus andhis to remember Partition by revisiting Manto's Muslims memories lost their of lives. Hundreds of thousands of children the event documented in his Partition stories. were These lost and abandoned; between 75,000 and 1,00,000 stories are valuable documents, indispensable women for were raped and abducted apart from the families that were torn apart.