The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide by Ayesha Jalal

The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide

Ayesha Jalal

268 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore i...

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