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PRECARIOUS REPORT OF SUBCONTINENT PARTITION UNDER A CRITICAL LOOK ON SIDHWAS SELECTED WRITINGS

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).06      10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).06      Published : Mar 2023

"Precarious Report of Sub-continent Partition" under A Critical Look on Sidhwa's Selected Writings

Abstract

    This study briefly describes the moral and immoral effects of National Boundaries which have been suffered by a nation. In different perspectives idea of partition and its political background has been discussed by sub continents writers. The present study has been done under the selected writing of sidhwa Ice Candy Man, The Crow Eaters and An American Brat. This research dissertation highlights that how boundaries unite and isolate people, it has an important role in our lives. It draws a special attention and detailed information with reference to the particular texts that how they put an impact on an individual and on a community. This research highlights that how forcefully people have been separated because of the migration, they have faced the physical and psychological disturbance. Although the border line has been created between both the nations, but the idea of independence has promoted the multicultural society which later becomes a progressive approach.

    Partition, Border, Boundaries, Nation, Nationalism, Self vs Other

    (1) Fatima Azhar
    Lecturer, Lahore School of Accountancy & Finance, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
    (2) Khalid Mehmood Ahmad
    Lecturer, University of Lahore, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Jonathan Caleb Imdad
    Lecturer, University of Lahore, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Azhar, F., Ahmad, K. M., & Imdad, J. C. (2023). "Precarious Report of Sub-continent Partition" under A Critical Look on Sidhwa's Selected Writings. Global Language Review, VIII(I), 59-70. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).06

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Azhar, Fatima, Khalid Mehmood Ahmad, and Jonathan Caleb Imdad. 2023. ""Precarious Report of Sub-continent Partition" under A Critical Look on Sidhwa's Selected Writings." Global Language Review, VIII (I): 59-70 doi: 10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).06

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    HARVARD : AZHAR, F., AHMAD, K. M. & IMDAD, J. C. 2023. "Precarious Report of Sub-continent Partition" under A Critical Look on Sidhwa's Selected Writings. Global Language Review, VIII, 59-70.

MHRA

    MHRA : Azhar, Fatima, Khalid Mehmood Ahmad, and Jonathan Caleb Imdad. 2023. ""Precarious Report of Sub-continent Partition" under A Critical Look on Sidhwa's Selected Writings." Global Language Review, VIII: 59-70

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    MLA : Azhar, Fatima, Khalid Mehmood Ahmad, and Jonathan Caleb Imdad. ""Precarious Report of Sub-continent Partition" under A Critical Look on Sidhwa's Selected Writings." Global Language Review, VIII.I (2023): 59-70 Print.

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    OXFORD : Azhar, Fatima, Ahmad, Khalid Mehmood, and Imdad, Jonathan Caleb (2023), ""Precarious Report of Sub-continent Partition" under A Critical Look on Sidhwa's Selected Writings", Global Language Review, VIII (I), 59-70

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Azhar, Fatima, Khalid Mehmood Ahmad, and Jonathan Caleb Imdad. ""Precarious Report of Sub-continent Partition" under A Critical Look on Sidhwa's Selected Writings." Global Language Review VIII, no. I (2023): 59-70. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).06