Volume : VI, Issue : V, May - 2017

"Rows of Naked Women" Subaltern Bodies and the trauma of Partition in ‘Lajwanti‘, ‘Khol Do‘ and ‘The Train Has Reached Amritsar‘

Ritu Lohia

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 In this research paper, I am going to present a comparative and contrastive study between the works of three famous Progressive writers on the same issues, which deals with female sexuality under the trauma of partition in relation to socio– historical context. Introducing with Rajinder Singh Bedi, who has stormed in the society  by his radical voice in ‘ Lajwanti‘. Lajwanti‘s (Lajo)  identity has lost in the very  idea of "Devi", and this idea cause a hurdle to gain her identity again. Next,  A fitting symbol of liminal spaces and stark emotional landscape of partition of violence is chillingly captured in this remarkable short story  ‘ The Train Has Reached Amritsar‘ by  Bhisham Sahni , the leading writer of  the generation that lived through it. Finally, Saadat Hasan Manto , has more more realistic and shocking records about the crucial and black days of partition. ‘Khol Do‘ emblematizes the grey metaphors of sexual identity and gendered subjectivity in a socio–political empire of those predatory times. Further, the following paper will ing forth the idea of large scale violent migration of 1946/47 and the bodies of women as the location of both masculine violence and the politics of the state. Altogether, the three writers highlighting the psyche of the female victims of that time and shared the sorrow of the partition which has aupt end a long and communally shared history. 

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RITU LOHIA, "Rows of Naked Women" Subaltern Bodies and the trauma of Partition in ‘Lajwanti‘, ‘Khol Do‘ and ‘The Train Has Reached Amritsar‘, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : VOLUME-6 | Issue‾5 | May‾2017

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