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The pity of partition :

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0691153620 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

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9780691153629 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

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The pity of partition :

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[Book]

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Manto's life, times, and work across the India-Pakistan divide /

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Ayesha Jalal

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Princeton :

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Princeton University Press,

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©2013

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xv, 265 pages :

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illustrations ;

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24 cm

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Lawrence Stone lectures

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-247) and index

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Prelude: Manto and Partition -- I. Stories -- "Knives, Daggers, and Bullets Cannot Destroy Religion" -- Amritsar Dreams of Revolution -- Bombay : Challenges and Opportunities -- II. Memories -- Remembering Partition -- From Cinema City to Conquering Air Waves -- Living and Walking Bombay -- III. Histories -- Partition : Neither End nor Beginning -- On the Postcolonial Moment -- Pakistan and Uncle Sam's Cold War -- Epilogue: "A Nail's Debt" : Manto Lives On ..

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"Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Today Manto is an acknowledged master of twentieth-century Urdu literature, and his fiction serves as a lens through which the tragedy of partition is brought sharply into focus. In The Pity of Partition, Manto's life and work serve as a prism to capture the human dimension of sectarian conflict in the final decades and immediate aftermath of the British raj. Ayesha Jalal draws on Manto's stories, sketches, and essays, as well as a trove of his private letters, to present an intimate history of partition and its devastating toll. Probing the creative tension between literature and history, she charts a new way of reconnecting the histories of individuals, families, and communities in the throes of cataclysmic change. Jalal brings to life the people, locales, and events that inspired Manto's fiction, which is characterized by an eye for detail, a measure of wit and irreverence, and elements of suspense and surprise. In turn, she mines these writings for fresh insights into everyday cosmopolitanism in Bombay and Lahore, the experience and causes of partition, the postcolonial transition, and the advent of the Cold War in South Asia. The first in-depth look in English at this influential literary figure, The Pity of Partition demonstrates the revelatory power of art in times of great historical rupture."--Page [2] of book jacket

Manṭo, Saʻādat Ḥasan,1912-1955

Manṭo, Saʻādat Ḥasan,1912-1955-- Criticism and interpretation

Manṭo, Saʻādat Ḥasan,1912-1955-- Political and social views

Authors, Urdu-- 20th century, Biography

India-Pakistan Conflict, 1947-1949

Narration (Rhetoric)-- Political aspects-- South Asia-- History-- 20th century

Short stories, Urdu-- History and criticism

India, History, Partition, 1947

South Asia, History, 20th century

South Asia, In literature

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Jalal, Ayesha

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