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Cracking India Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Other books by Bapsi Sidhwa include: The Crow Eaters (1978), An American Brat (1993), The Pakistani Bride (1982), Water (2006), and City of Sin and Splendour: Writings on Lahore (2006).

The influence of Cracking India can be seen in later feminist accounts of partition, such as Shauna Singh Baldwin’s What the Body Remembers (2001).

For further books concerning partition and post-1947 India, consider: Bhisham Sahni's Tamas (1988), Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan (1956), Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children (1981) or Shame (1983), Abdullah Hussein's The Weary Generations (1963), Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column (1992), Chaman Nahal's Azadi (1975), or Nisid Harjari's ...

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