摘要：India, once called 'Golden Bird' and the country of 'Unity in Diversity' got partitioned in 1947. It is not only the nation that has been divided but also the feelings; love and unity of the innocent citizens of the country got butchered. This is the fact which continuously haunts me as an Indian whenever I read these two novels – Khushwant Singh's 'Train to Pakistan' (1956) and Amitav Ghosh's 'The Shadow Lines (1988)'. The present paper is a humble endeavour to focus on the psychological trauma and the violence that the partitioned India had to suffer and how that has been vividly chronicled by these two novels.
关键词：partition;trauma;communal brutality;disillusionment;oasis of peace;heterogeneity of life
