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SCENES OF SECTARIANISM IN URDU NOVEL

Abstract

Whenever the Urdu fiction created after the partition was read with attention and concentration, a gap repeatedly shocked us, a gap that was not just thematic, but also historical and moral. Many important and decisive events of our collective history were seemingly erased from the scenario of fiction. They were present, but non-existent; their impact was there, but their mention was absent.

The all-round and human complexity with which sectarianism was seen in the Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh contexts in the novels written on the partition and riots is a great literary document of its era. But after the establishment of Pakistan, when the nature of sectarianism changed, when its direction turned towards internal religious identities, we rarely hear the echo of this new scenario in Urdu fiction.

In these novels, the sectarian atmosphere is not just a background, it is a living, breathing psychological force that descends inside a person and changes his thinking, his touch, his vision, even his innocence. An era filled with chaos and violence does not only stain the streets and markets with blood, it also lays landmines in the minds. A person first asks for a name, then a religion; first smiles, then is shocked, first comes close, then stops his hand. These scenes of sectarianism in Urdu novel has been discussed so for.