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<p><b>A history of partition seen through the life and fiction of one of the subcontinent's most important modern writers</b><br><br>Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) was an established Urdu short story writer and a rising screenwriter in Bombay at the time of India's partition in 1947, and he is perhaps best known for the short stories he wrote following his migration to Lahore in newly formed Pakistan. Today Manto is an acknowledged master of twentieth-century Urdu literature, and his fiction ser

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Author

Ayesha Jalal

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9789350297896

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Language Learning

Rating

3.78 / 5 (72 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13