Perspectives on Partition

Why does the Partition continue to be narrated as a Hindu-Muslim conflict when other communities too experienced its impact? Is the explanation an attempt to justify the ongoing love-hate relationship between India and Pakistan, where majoritarian religious identities hold sway in electoral politics? How would our understanding of history change if we learnt from the stories and perspectives of marginalised caste, linguistic and racial identities?

The Runaway Boy, published by Eka, is V Ramaswamy’s English translation of Manoranjan Byapari’s first book from the Chandal Jibon trilogy originally written in Bengali. The story puts caste at the centre of the narrative. The