Partition, despite seventy long years of its taking place, remains till date an event unsettled, unresolved, unpurged and unaccounted for in the historical, social, political and cultural psyche of the Indian sub-continent. The violence, massacre, bloodshed, trauma and the massive uprootings and ruptures that followed in its wake, constituted a prelude not just to the formation of new nations and to new structures of state and power, but to the transformation of the personal lives and intimate spheres of people the subcontinent over. Since then, nothing has remained the same and losses, the realization of the very magnitudes of which, are staggering, have been sung again and again. This volume, in bringing together different and contemporary critical approaches to Partition, is an attempt to re-open the idea of Partition for academic discussion and to offer new perspectives to its study.

S. M. Yahiya Ibrahim is Head, Dept. of English, Karim City College, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. With a teaching experience of twenty years he has attended many national and international seminars, conferences and workshops and convened four UGC sponsored National Seminars so far. He was the editor of The Discourse, an ISSN numbered, refereed, bilingual, quarterly journal of Humanities and Social Sciences and presently the Chief Editor of Das Literarisch, a biannual, peer-reviewed, international journal of English Creative Writing and Literary Studies. He has been in the expert panel of National Translation Mission (NTM), a Govt. of India body based at Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. Recently he has published an edited book titled The Gaze Reverted: Women Looking at Men (ISBN 978-81-8435-397-6) and has been working on three edited books on Indian Fiction, Literature and Subconscious and Charles Dickens.