ABSTRACT
In a Preface to L’Indiade ou l’Inde de leurs rêves—“Indiada or the India of Their Dreams,” Cixous ponders why the struggle for Indian independence— a cause which “united and carried 400 million Indians from every religion and caste towards the same goal”1—should have resulted in partition. Recalling the thesis of “The Place of Crime, The Place of Forgiveness,” 1 she suggests that the answer lies in the conjunction of circumstances—“the second world war, political chance, the English only too pleased to weaken the Freedom Fighters of the Indian Congress by pressurizing the Muslim League”—and the aspirations and weaknesses of individuals.
