A Divided Legacy: The Partition in Selected Novels of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh

by Niaz Zaman

This is the first book to analyze partition novels in three major languages of the English, Bangali and Urdu. The book is thus an important addition to the numerous writings that have appeared in recent years on an event that not only created two nation states but also affected
the psyche of a newly divided people.

358 pages, Hardcover

Published August 9, 2001

About the author

Niaz Zaman is Professor of English, University of Dhaka. She has edited several anthologies, including Selected Stories from Bangladesh, 1971 and After, The Escape and Other Stories, Under the Krishnachura, From the Delta and New Age Short Stories. Her study of the Partition, A Divided Legacy: The Partition in Selected Novels of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, won the Atwar Hussain Award of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh and the National Archives Award. Her creative writings include The Crooked Neem Tree, The Dance and Other Stories, Didima’s Necklace and Other Stories and History of the Family of Sheikh Gul Mohammad (formerly Ghumman Mal of Bhera) with an Account of His Conversion and Some Interesting Chronicles of His Descendants. She was consulting editor, Arts and Humanities for Banglapedia and editor of the Bangladesh Journal of American Studies. From 2003-2005, she was literary editor of New Age, Dhaka. From 1981 to 1983, Dr Zaman was posted to the Bangladesh Embassy in Washington, D.C. as Educational Attaché.

Reviews

[Humera Karim]

Uncomfortable history of Sub-Continent. Eacg group perpetrated atrocities on each other. Now all they need is to work on self/mental development. So, this rich in resources land can flourish with brotherly states providing decent standards of life to their citizens. No more war and hatred.