Partition of India Indian subcontinent today. According to American scholar Allen McGrath many British leaders including the British Viceroy, Mountbatten, were unhappy over the partition of India. Lord Mountbatten of Burma had not only been accused of rushing the process through, but also is alleged to have influenced the Radcliffe Line in India's favour. The commission took longer to decide on a final boundary than on the partition itself. Thus the two nations were granted their independence even before there was a defined boundary between them. Some critics allege that British haste led to increased cruelties during the Partition. Because independence was declared
Artistic depictions of the partition of India period of time. Written by Rohinton Mistry, the story is set in 1975. However, the Partition plays a dominant role in the narrative. "A Fine Balance".(2001). Random House Bapsi Sidhwa's 1988 novel, written in the backdrop of the riots in Lahore, re-released in 1991 as "Cracking India". Later the story was made into a film, called "Earth" by Deepa Mehta. "Ice-Candy Man" (1989) , later published as "Cracking India" (1991). Jhumpa Lahiri was awarded the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "Interpreter of Maladies", a collection of short stories some of which involved the aftermath of the partition. Interpreter of