Locating the Displaced: Indian English Short Story and Partition

Abstract

Indian narrative tradition enjoys a unique place of eminence so far as various narrative traditions exist in different parts of the world. Its basic definitive tendency
that can generally be taken to be the point of departure is its unique status as the repository of all knowledge and the essential human values. To trace the history of
narrative in India is certainly an uphill task but no one can be more sure than about its essential characteristic features that the art of narration had been identified with even in the pre-theorization phase.