Socio-psychological Issues in the Novels of Chaman Nahal

Abstract

This paper deals with the partition between India and Pakistan. After partition how people became mentally sick and psychologically depress. Chaman Nahal depicted a photographic detail the catastrophic episode that was enacted on the Indian soil immediately before and after the declaration of the British decision in June 1947 to vacate India after partitioning it. Nahal showed how people of Pakistan have been living together with peace and harmony, but after the partition world is shaken by the creation of Pakistan.

Keywords: human psyche, massacre, bloodshed, partition, trauma, anguish, rape, violence