Partition Literature
A Study of Intiār Ḥusain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3664096 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Muhammad Umar Memon (University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 377-410 |
| Publication date | 1980-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x00006879 |
| OpenAlex | W2084390682 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 2 |
In an interview given in July 1974, Intiz̤ār Ḥusain, one of the most perceptive creative writers of Pakistan, had this to say about the experience of migration that was the direct outcome of the Partition of India in 1947:A decade ago when I was talking about the experience of migration and the articles I wrote concerning it, I was in a state of great hope and optimism. It was then my feeling that in the process of the Partition we had sudenly, almost by accident, regained a lost, great experience-namely, the experience of migration, hijrat, which has a place all its own in the history of the Muslims-and that it will give us a lot. But today, after our political ups and downs, I find myself in a different mood. Now I feel that sometimes a great experience comes to be lost to a nation; often nations forget their history. I do not mean that a nation does, or has to, keep its history alive in its memory in every period. There also comes a time when a nation completely forgets its past. So, that experience, I mean the experience of migration, is unfortunately lost to us and on us. And the great expectation that we had of making something out of it at a creative level and of exploiting it in developing a new consciousness and sensibility-that bright expectation has now faded and gone
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Feeling · Mood · Optimism · Partition (number theory · Political science · Politics · Sensibility · History · Indian History and Philosophy · Law · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Psychology · Social Psychology · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1979 - 2019 (41) |
| Highly cited | No |