South Asian Partition Fiction in English: From Khushwant Singh to Amitav Ghosh explore Partition-related fiction coming out of South Asia from the 1950s to the 1980s. It serves as a great introduction to Partition historical fiction for students interested in exploring this often-forgotten history further through fiction.
Other works of historical fiction by Indian and Pakistani authors that recount details of Partition will also be valuable to explore, including both The Parted Earth and Anjali Enjeti, Victory Colony 1950 by Bhaswati Ghosh, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, and Partitions by Amit Majmudar.
It might be helpful to pair The Shadow Lines with relevant nonfiction...
