Paper Details

Name: Kavita Kuplish
Country: India

Year: 2020 & 2021 & 2022 (Combined)
Volume: Volume - 7 and 8 and 9 (Combined Issues)
Page Number: 31-34

The Indian Independence Bill passed in the British Parliament on July 18,1947 marked the end of British rule in India and initiated the process of transition. It was an event of landmark importance as the masses had understood the real intention of the colonisers and so wanted to set their nation free from the foreign rule. Little did Indians know then that this independence would cost them dearly. The British Raj did finish but withsome serious and grave repercussions for India.The colonialists who earlier entered the Indian Subcontinent with ‘Divide and Rule’ policy, devised another plan to ‘divide and quit’, and so the transfer of power from British Colonialists to national rulershad a great political design which saw the unity of the country breaking up into two nations first and later into three. The partition of the country which was thought to solve many problems indeed brought with it more complications and raised many more questions. The immense suffering the people of India had to endure then because of triggered riots, mass casualties and a colossal wave of migration is a bloody legacy in the history of India and finds place in the writings of partition scholars. Generally, great tragedies or great historic events inspire the writers and artists to create great works of art in language and other forms of art. This tragedy of great magnitude produced a large body of literature in Bengali, Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi, English, Sindhi etc.