Patriotism, Partition and the Persecuted Social Biography of Victims of Partition

This book explores the theme of continuous wreaking of brutal persecu­tion of a Hindu family on the one hand and the uncompromising efforts of Muslim friend and neighbours to protect this family on the other. It is set against the resultant and barbaric forces let loose after the propagation of the two nation theory, and the ultimate partition of India in 1947. Based on the social biography of a Hindu family that stayed back in East Pakistan it traces their journey, how they became the ‘oth...