Re-Presenting the Past in the Hindi Novel: The Darkness in Bhīṣma Sāhnī’s Tamas | Zendy

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Re-Presenting the Past in the Hindi Novel: The Darkness in Bhīṣma Sāhnī’s Tamas

Author(s) -

Richard Delacy

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

cracow indological studies

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.103

H-Index - 1

eISSN - 2449-8696

pISSN - 1732-0917

DOI - 10.12797/cis.23.2021.02.02

Subject(s) - hindi , darkness , literature , history , art , philosophy , physics , linguistics , astronomy

While the modern literary novel in Hindi has traditionally grappled with contemporary issues impacting society in north India, Bhīṣma Sāhnī’s famous novel Tamas (“Darkness”) may be considered a unique endavour to revisit the horrific events that marked the transfer of power and partition of British India in 1947. This article represents a preliminary attempt to consider the emergence of a work of literary fiction in Hindi approximately 25 years after the events on which it is based.

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