Partition of India Committee. "Boloji" states that in Punjab there were no riots but there was communal tension, while Gandhi was reportedly isolated by Nehru and Patel and observed "maun vrat" (day of silence). Mountbatten visited Gandhi and said he hoped that he would not oppose the partition, to which Gandhi wrote the reply: "Have I ever opposed you?" Within British India, the border between India and Pakistan (the Radcliffe Line) was determined by a British Government-commissioned report prepared under the chairmanship of a London barrister, Sir Cyril Radcliffe. Pakistan came into being with two non-contiguous enclaves, East Pakistan (today Bangladesh) and West
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