Who among the following has not written about partition in his works?
- A.Saadat Hasan Manto
- B.Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
- C.Bhisham Sahni
- D.Narendranath Mitra
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay. Bankim died in 1894, more than fifty years before the Partition of 1947, so he could not have written about it.
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay was a leading Bengali novelist of the nineteenth century. His novel Anandamath, published in 1882, contains the song Vande Mataram, which became the national song. His other works include Durgeshnandini and Kapalkundala. The Partition of India in August 1947 uprooted millions of people and became a major theme for writers of the generation that lived through it, in Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi and Bengali alike.
A is wrong because Saadat Hasan Manto wrote some of the best-known Partition stories, such as Toba Tek Singh and Thanda Gosht. C is wrong because Bhisham Sahni's Hindi novel Tamas is set in the riots around Partition. D is wrong because Narendranath Mitra was a twentieth-century Bengali writer of the post-war years whose stories include the uprooting caused by Partition.
Exam tip: Partition writing: Manto (Toba Tek Singh), Bhisham Sahni (Tamas), Khushwant Singh (Train to Pakistan); Bankim = Anandamath, 1882.
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