Sixth River (Record no. 61854)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20240610161738.0
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789389231151
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name : Donated by Dr. Kumar Ketkar
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 954 TAU
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Taunsvi, Fikr.
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Sixth River
Remainder of title : A Journal From the Partition of India.
Statement of responsibility, etc / Fikr Taunsvi.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Speaking Tiger Publishing
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 2019.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 181 p.
Dimensions : 24cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount 00
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Deftly combining social satire with political critique, Taunsvi anticipates Manto’s Partition fiction, written after 1948… The Sixth River is a most welcome addition to the burgeoning personal narratives on Punjab’s and India’s partition.’ —Ayesha Jalal, Mary Richardson Professor of History, Tufts University The Partition of India in 1947 left millions displaced amidst indiscriminate murders, rapes and looting. The Sixth River, originally published as Chhata Darya, is an extraordinary first-person account of that violent time. Born Ram Lal Bhatia in the town of Taunsa Sharif, then in the Punjab, Fikr Taunsvi left for the cosmopolitan city of Lahore in the 1930s. Here he worked with various newspapers, wrote poetry and articles, and became a part of the intellectual circle. But when independence was announced, Fikr was faced with a new reality—of being a Hindu in his beloved city, now in Pakistan. The Sixth River is the journal Fikr wrote from August to November 1947 as Lahore disintegrated around him. Fikr is angry at the shortsightedness and ineptness of Radcliffe, Nehru, Gandhi and Jinnah. In the company of likeminded friends such as Sahir Ludhianvi, he mourns the loss of the art and culture of Lahore in the bloodlust and deluded euphoria of freedom; and derides the newly converted, who adopted stereotypical religious symbols. He is bewildered when old friends suddenly turn staunch nationalists and advise him to either convert or leave the country. And the deep, unspeakable trauma millions faced during Partition reaches Fikr’s doorstep when his neighbour murders his daughter, and when he is eventually forced to migrate to Amritsar in India. Powerful, ironic and deeply harrowing, The Sixth River is an invaluable account of the Partition. This brilliant translation by Maaz Bin Bilal makes the classic available in English for the first time.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Journal
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element From the Partition of India
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element History
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Fikr Taunsvi.
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 10/06/2024 Donated by Dr. Kumar Ketkar 0.00   954 TAU G3674 10/06/2024 10/06/2024 Books Dr. Kumar Ketkar Collection
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