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In the absence of a linguistically defined region of their own, the migration of Sindhi Hindus to India was particularly painful and humiliating. It propelled the refugees to either embrace homogenisation or move into unknown territory. Mohan Kalpana's Jalavatni is a rare document in Partition literature. It brings to the literary archive of Partition a hard-hitting voice hitherto missing—the voice of rage at the hostility of the host nation rather than a gruesome account of violence, the struggle for home, the paucity of resources, and the rejection associated with identity. This paper introduces the reader to this untranslated and hence unknown story of amorphous citizenship and estrangement in the wake of Partition.
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