H-Asia CFP, A Divided Legacy: The Literature of Partition Discussion published by Dr. Manoj Kumar on Thursday, October 20, 2016 Type: Call for Papers Date: October 15, 2016 Location: India Subject Fields: Humanities, Literature A Divided Legacy: The Literature of Partition Call for Papers Deadline for submission: December 15, 2016 Contact emails: [email protected] Editors Dr. Hemendra Singh Chandalia, Professor of English at JRN Rajasthan Vidyapeeth University, Udaipur (Rajasthan) Dr. Manoj Kumar, Asst. Professor, Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur Concept Note Partition is a geo-political phenomenon that splits the nations into parts. The partition of India divided it into three parts as if two arms of a trunk had been severed off. It came as a condition of Independence, though many versions of its causes exist in history books. Indians struggled hard to get freedom which required sacrifice of many lives. India succeeded to be free from British rule in the wake of partition. The biggest exodus of people followed. The people of Indian subcontinent who lived together for centuries suddenly got swayed away by the divisive politics of the colonial powers and became bitter enemy of each other and inflicted rape, loot, and bloodshed on the supposed enemies. In the name of partition, they chopped each other. Though major partition literature depicts the division on the western border but an equally traumatic experience was felt by the people of Bengal as well. In fact Bengal suffered partition thrice. First, in 1905 by the British, then in 1947 and also in 1971 when many Bangla speaking Hindu families migrated from East Pakistan to West Bengal. The demolition of Babri Mosque in 1992 also caused tremors in Bangla Desh and people suffered the reaction there also. In fact, partition has seeped in Indian psyche as a permanent pathological condition. Time and again it erupts as a silent volcano and destroys the fabric of togetherness, fraternity and unity. Not much has been said in critical writings about the partition of Kashmir in the last century. The people of Kashmir have also suffered on account of foreign infiltration as well as state suppression. The large scale ouster of Kashmiri Pundits is yet another issue. Citation: Dr. Manoj Kumar. CFP, A Divided Legacy: The Literature of Partition. H-Asia. 10-20-2016. https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/discussions/149451/cfp-divided-legacy-literature-partition Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1 H-Asia The trauma left by partition is major concern of writers after independence. A good amount of literature is written on this subject particularly by the authors of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Some of the writers welcomed freedom though it was smeared with blood, vandalism, rape etc. but some writers considered it as ‘false dawn.’ Nazrul Islam of Bengal stated that the Swaraj did not bring anything for the hungry child or because it was a divided India. But, this event has motivated many writers and filmmakers to depict the horror and agony of partition. Writers such as Khushwant Singh, Saadat Hasan Manto, Salman Rushdie, Bapsi Sidhawa, Bhisham Sahni , Manohar Mulgaonkar, Chaman Nahal, K A Abbas, Amitav Ghosh etc. tried to show the true picture of partition. Many films have also been made on this subject like Arth, Tamas, Gaddar: EK Prem Katha, Pinjar, Sardar, Jinnah etc. We will quote a famous poet ‘Naushad Lightwala’ who writes, “Jinke bhichhade the apne, aur tute the kai sapne, Wo ab tak soye nahi, idhar bhi, udhar bhi. The fire of partition has had not been put out and continues to flicker constantly in the hearts of people and is often flared by those who aim at misusing it political gains. Scholarly articles in English are invited on the above theme. For the convenience of the scholars some topics have been listed below but they are only suggestive and the scholars are free to choose their areas of interest within this wider framework. The subthemes are as follows: Partition Cinema Divisions in the name of religion Partition and women Impact of Partition the common people Culture and Conflict Regional literature and partition Editing requirements Font & size: Times New Roman 12, Spacing: 1.5 lines, Margin of 1 inch on all four sides Title of the paper: bold, Sentence case (Capitalize each word), centered Text of the paper: Justified. Font & Size: Times New Roman – 12 References: Please follow MLA style Articles should be submitted as MS Word attachments only The length of article should be 4000-6000 words Authentic, scholarly and unpublished research papers are invited from scholars/ faculty/ researchers/ writers/ professors from all over the world. The book will be published with an ISBN by a renowned publisher. Please submit the unpublished work including an abstract of 150 words approximately and brief description about the author to [email protected] by December 15, 2016. Contact Info: [email protected] Contact Email: [email protected] Citation: Dr. Manoj Kumar. CFP, A Divided Legacy: The Literature of Partition. H-Asia. 10-20-2016. https://networks.h-net.org/node/22055/discussions/149451/cfp-divided-legacy-literature-partition Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 2.