Abstract
The Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 concurrent with its freedom from colonial yoke was the most crucial development in the subcontinental history of the past century, but for the bifurcated eastern province of Bengal, it had additional religio-political reverberations. This chapter examines the disunion in hearts and minds of the Bengali populace as reflected in literary writings of the region, with special focus on two short stories: ‘Alam's Own House' by Dibyendu Palit2 and ‘Foreigner' by Prafulla Roy. It traces the long and jagged trajectory of their relational dynamics and the dissonance during the last seven decades, even as one stands at a critical juncture in the history of the Bengali nation. In the 1946 Provincial elections, Bengal was one of the two provinces which had formed Muslim League governments, the other being Sind.
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