Abstract
The Partition of India in 1947 resulted in the displacement of millions of people from both sides of the newly created border. This article explores the reconstruction of identities in the aftermath of Partition. The unexpectedness of the tragedy, the sudden uprooting of people from the secure environs of their homes and the alien land in which they found themselves, led many to withdraw into themselves. The memory of the past, nostalgia and a feeling of disconnection with the present resulted in a conflicted sense of identity. However writers also employed the memory of the pre-Partition past to suggest alternative imaginings for a society divided along religious lines.
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