Jalal, Ayesha.

The pity of partition : Manto's life, times, and work across the India-Pakistan divide / Ayesha Jalal. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2013. - xv, 265 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Lawrence Stone lectures .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-247) and index.

Prelude: Manto and Partition -- I. Stories -- "Knives, Daggers, and Bullets Cannot Destroy Religion" -- Amritsar Dreams of Revolution -- Bo mbay : Challenges and Opportunities -- II. Memories -- Remembering Part ition -- From Cinema City to Conquering Air Waves -- Living and Walking Bombay -- III. Histories -- Partition : Neither End nor Beginning -- O n the Postcolonial Moment -- Pakistan and Uncle Sam's Cold War -- Epilo gue: "A Nail's Debt" : Manto Lives On...

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India-Pakistan conflict, 1947-1949.
South Asia--History-- 20th century.


South Asia--In literature.
India--History-- Partition, 1947-

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