Understanding the Historicity of the Text: A Reading of Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan (original) (raw)

Literature is never purely aesthetic, to believe that a writer writes inthe complete absence of awareness of the time and place, is contestable. Literary works are informed by the historical context and vice versa. This is vividly traceable in the plethora of Partition-related Literature by the writers of the Indian Subcontinent. They, in addition to being works of Literature appealing aesthetically, also contradicts and many times re-enacts History afresh. Thus, this paper is an attempt in that context, trying to study facts in fiction and the fiction in received facts (History).