INDIA'S PARTITION: DEPICTING ANGER AND VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN ICE CANDY MAN AND SUNLIGHT ON A BROKEN COLUMN

Abstract

In the minds of the people of the Sub-continent, the partition remains inerasable due to its negative impact on them. The love for the nation and the struggle for freedom gradually took a form of communal fury that destroyed innocent people and marginalized the society. India's sudden and rude shock – Pakistan Partition unnerved women, and they became a particular target of communal fury. And in the crisis ravaged days they were the worst sufferers. The reports about the partition show the psychological pain, the emotional abuse the women have endured. Many female authors have emerged to describe the pain that the Sub-Continent's inmates endure. Surprisingly both the novel SUNLIGHT ON A BROKEN COLUMN by Attia Hosain and the Ice-Candy-Man by Bapsi Sidwa portray female characters who were the sufferers of the socio-political upheaval but who naturally revolt against the prevalent fundamentalism of the times. They both chose courageous characters to express their agony and pain in their writings. These novels analyze the ill effects of partitioning through the eyes of women narrators.