Top 28 Partition Novels in Indian English literature- Partition literature is an integral part of most of the competitive examinations in India. There were a couple of writers, who are popularizing during the partition. Later on, other writers started to produce partition novels and short stories in various languages.
Here you will get a list of important partition novels in Indian English literature. If you are preparing for PGT English, TGT English, UPSC, and Ph.D. Entrance, M.Phil entrance, or English lecturer post, then you should read this post.
Top 28 Partition Novels in Indian English literature
- Khuswant Singh- Train to Pakistan (1956)
- Bisham Sahni – Tamas (1974)
- Manohar Malgaonkar – A Ben in the Gangas (1965)
- Bapsi Sidhwa – Ice Candy Man (1998)
- Salman Rushdie – Midnight’s Children (1981)
- Anita Desai – Clear Light of the Day (1980)
- Attia Hussain – Sun Light on a Broken Column (1961)
- Balachandra Rajan – The Dark Dancer (1958)
- Chaman Nahal – Azadi (1975)
- Amitav Ghosh – The Shadow Lines (1988)
- Nayantara Sahgal – A storm in Chandigarh (1969)
- Vikram Seth – The Suitable Boy (1993)
- Raj Gills- The Rape (1974)
- Shauna Singh Baldwin – What the Boy Remember (1999)
- Tahmina Anam- A Golden Age
- Urvashi Butalia- The Other side of silence
- Larry Collins – Freedom at Mightnight
- Aarohan Atwal – Zero Defect
- Ahmed Ali – Twilight in Delhi
- Ram Manohar Lohia – Guilty Man of India’s Partition
- Ram Chandra Guha- India After Gandhi
- Mukul Kesavan – Looking Through Glass
- Amrita Pritam – Pinjar (1950)
- Jumpa Lahiri – Interpreter of Maladies
- Rohitan Mistry- A Fine Balance (1995)
- Saadat Hasan Manto – Mottled Dawn
- Rajendra Prasad- India Devided
- Balachandra Rajan- The Dark Dancer
Important English Literature Book
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Famous English Writers and Their Books
Works | Writers Name |
Animal Farm | George Orwell |
Absalom and Achitophel | John Dryden |
Advancement of Learning | Francis Bacon |
Agnes Grey | Anne Bronte |
Alchemist | Ban Jonson |
Alchemy | Alexandrian Greeks |
Amelia | Henry Fielding |
American | Henry James |
American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser |
Anna of the Five Towns | Arnold Bennett |
Arcadia | Sir Philip Sidney |
ASTROPHEL AND Stella | Sir Philip Sidney |
As You Like It | Shakespeare |
Bewoulf | Unknown |
Badman The Life and Death of Mr | John Bunyan |
Bartholomew Fair | Ben Jonson |
Biographia Literaria | S.T Coleridge |
Borough | Crabbe |
Bostonians | Henry James |
Brave New World | Aldous Huxley |
Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh |
Cake and Ale | Somerset Maugham |
Caleb Williams, The Adventure | Godwin |
Can you Forgive Her | Trolloppe |
Candida | G.B Shaw |
Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer |
Castle of Oranto | Horace Walpole |
Cenci | P.B Shelley |
Chaste Maid in Cheapside | Thomas Middleton |
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | Lord Byron |
Christabel | S.T Coleridge |