| Summary/Abstract |
The experience of migration as a result of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent has an entirely different level of meaning than that subsumed in migration alone. Here the issues are related to the splitting, in a most organic way, of culture, history, tradition and continuity. Noted modern Urdu writer Intizar Husain was the first to come up with the idea of describing the migration as hijrat. What is the past? When one ponders on this, then history, religion, ethnicity, mythology, old folktales, belief and fears all come into play.
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