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The experience of migration as a result of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent has an entirely different level of meaning than that subsumed in migration alone. Here the issues are related to the splitting, in a most organic way, of culture, history, tradition and continuity. Noted modern Urdu writer Intizar Husain was the first to come up with the idea of describing the migration as  hijrat . What is the past? When one ponders on this, then history, religion, ethnicity, mythology, old folktales, belief and fears all come into play. This paper revisits Partition and Intizar Husain's fiction through the lens of Urdu literary modernism. How did the “new writers” remember the wounds of this organic splitting of a common culture and memory? I examine Intizar Husain's novel  Bastī  to illustrate the ways in which writers like him encapsulate the experience of partition—an experience distinctly different from the Progressives “literature of partition violence” ( fasādāt kā adab ). How does Hussain invoke the past, or use the civilizational memory to heal wounds?

THE ROOTS OF THE PRESENT ARE IN THE PAST: RECAPITULATING PARTITION THROUGH INTIZAR HUSAIN’S NOVEL, BASTI