Five Most Popular Novels on Partition of India

Novel is considered to be the most important genre in prose fiction, wikipedia describes novel as: "A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally written in prose form, and which is typically published as a book.  The entire genre has been seen as having "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in classical Greece and Rome, in medieval and early modern romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella. (Since the 18th century, the term "novella", or "novelle" in German, has been used in English and other European languages to describe a long short story or a short novel.)."

A lot has been written on partition of India both in fiction and non-fiction, here is a list of five most popular novels on the issue of partition.

1- Midnight's Children: Midnight's Children a novel by Salman Rushdie is a loose allegory for events in India both before and, primarily, after the independence and partition of India. The protagonist and narrator of the story is Saleem Sinai, born at the exact moment when India became an independent country. He was born with telepathic powers, as well as an enormous and constantly dripping nose with an extremely sensitive sense of smell. The novel is divided into three books. It came out in 1981, and has won the Booker Prize, the Booker of the Booker Prize and numerous other awards, it is considered as the most wonderful novel on India's partition.

2- Train to Pakistan: Train to Pakistan is a historical novel by Khushwant Singh, published in 1956. It recounts the Partition of India in August 1947. Instead of depicting the Partition in terms of only the political events surrounding it, Singh digs into a deep local focus, providing a human dimension which brings to the event a sense of reality, horror, and believability.

3- Pinjar: Pinjar is a 1950 Punjabi novel written by noted poet and novelist Amrita Pritam. It is the story of a Hindu girl, Puro, abducted by a Muslim man, Rashid. Puro's whose parents refuse to recover the defiled girl when she manages a run to her parents from Rashid's home. Pinjar is believed to be one of the best literature written with backdrop of Partition of India.

4- Ghaddaar: Krishan Chander's novel Ghaddaar (1960; Naya Idara) is also considered an important novel on partition of India. This novel is set against the backdrop of Partition, between August and September 1947. The story traces the dilemmas and experiences of Bajinath, a Hindu businessman brought up in Lahore, who is no longer able to find a place to stay in Pakistan. He represents many millions who struggled to cope with Partition and the distance that had come between themselves and what they believed to be their ‘home’.

5- Aag Ka Dariya: Aag Ka Dariya is a novel written by Qurratulain Hyder in the context of an Indian subcontinent partition. It has been described as "one of the Indian Subcontinent’s best known novels". The novel timelines spanned over two thousand years starting from the time of Chandargupta Maurya to the partition of 1947. It was published in Urdu in 1959 and translated by the author into English in 1998.