ABSTRACT
The burden of historical and geographical disjunction has not lessened with the passage of time; rather it has gathered momentum with new geo-political complicities. This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book is to record and contextualize creative as well as critical responses to experiential reality of suffering at the time of the 1947 Partition and its continuous impact on the people lives in contemporary history. It contains essays which offer different perspectives on artistic representations of violence. The book contains creative and critical responses to the fear and anxiety of partitions in the lives of the people in India, suffering so often from riots and carnage following the Babri Masjid issue, the Godhra carnage cross-border terrorism and India-Pakistan relations culminating in the Kargil war.
