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More than half a century has passed since the subcontinental partitions of 1947 and 1971. There have been far reaching political and psychological consequences for the people of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. A huge corpus of literature, in the form of novels, short stories, poems, graphic narratives, films etc., has emerged since 1947 highlighting personal as well as collective experiences of the partitions. This book is a collection of essays about some of these prominent writers and their works and tries to find parallels which provide a scope to interrogate and rethink ideas of construction of nation, identity, and official historiography. The relevance of studying partitions and their legacies has never been more important than now given the emergence of cross-border issues globally.