Syllabus

Course Code: BH-ENG504    Course Name: Partition Literature

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 Intizar Husain:  Basti, tr. Frances W. Pritchett (New Delhi: Rupa).
2 Khushwant Singh:  Train to Pakistan
3 a) DibyenduPalit:  ‘Alam's Own House’, tr. Sarika Chaudhuri, Bengal Partition Stories: An Unclosed Chapter, ed. Bashabi Fraser (London: Anthem Press, 2008) pp. 453– 72.
b) ManikBandhopadhya:  ‘The Final Solution’, tr. Rani Ray, Mapmaking: PartitionStories from Two Bengals, ed. Debjani Sengupta (New Delhi: Srishti, 2003) pp. 23–39.
c) Sa’adat Hasan Manto:  ‘Toba Tek Singh’, in Black Margins: Manto, tr. M.Asaduddin (New Delhi: Katha, 2003) pp. 212– 20.
d) LalithambikaAntharajanam:  ‘A Leaf in the Storm’, tr. K. Narayana Chandran, in Stories about the Partition of India ed. Alok Bhalla (New Delhi: Manohar, 2012) pp. 137–45.
4 a) Faiz Ahmad Faiz: ‘For Your Lanes, My Country’, in In English: Faiz
Ahmad Faiz, A Renowned Urdu Poet, tr. and ed.
Riz Rahim (California: Xlibris, 2008) p. 138.
b) Jibananda Das:  ‘I Shall Return to This Bengal’, tr. Sukanta Chaudhuri, in Modern Indian Literature (New Delhi: OUP, 2004) pp. 8–13.
c) Gulzar:  ‘Toba Tek Singh’, tr. Anisur Rahman, in Translating Partition, ed. Tarun Saint et. al. (New Delhi: Katha, 2001) p. x.
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