Ayesha Jalal draws on Manto's stories, sketches, and essays, as well as a trove of his private letters, to present an intimate history of partition and its devastating toll. Probing the creative tension between literature and history, she charts a new way of reconnecting the histories of individuals, families, and communities in the throes of cataclysmic change. Jalal brings to life the people, locales, and events that inspired Manto's fiction, which is characterized by an eye for detail, a measure of wit and irreverence, and elements of suspense and surprise. In turn, she mines these writings for fresh insights into everyday cosmopolitanism in Bombay and Lahore, the experience and causes of partition, the postcolonial transition, and the advent of the Cold War in South Asia.' - from publisher's website.
Includes notes and select bibliography.
Lawrence Stone Lectures
Onsite
English
history,  postcolonialism,  politics,  Pakistan,  India
2013
265
9780691153629
1
biography, 
monograph
Prelude: Manto and Partition
I. Stories
'Knives, Daggers, and Bullets Cannot Destroy Religion'
Amritsar Dreams of Revolution
Bombay: Challenges and Opportunities
II. Memories
Remembering Partition
From Cinema City to Conquering Air Waves
Living and Walking Bombay
III. Histories
Partition: Neither End nor Beginning
On the Postcolonial Moment
Pakistan and Uncle Sam's Cold War
Epilogue: 'A Nail's Debt': Manto Lives
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