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03348aam a2200493 i 4500 001 F2E3DB3C56B111EEB3013A8641ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230919010045 008 190920t20192019ii b b 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2020330696 020 $a 9389231175 020 $a 9789389231175 020 $a 9389231159 020 $a 9789389231151 035 $a (OCoLC)1119742303 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d EMU $d OCLCF $d DKAGE $d NZAUC $d DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCO $d CDX $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h urd 042 $a lcode $a lcode 043 $a a-ii--- 050 00 $a DS480.842 $b .F5513 2019 082 04 $a 954.04/2 $2 23 100 0 $a Fikr Taunswi, $e author. 240 10 $a Chhaá¹Ä daryÄ. $l English 245 14 $a The sixth river : $b a journal from the partition of India / $c Fikr Taunsvi ; translated by Maaz Bin Bilal. 246 3 $a 6th river 264 1 $a New Delhi : $b Speaking Tiger, $c 2019. 300 $a 178 pages : $b map ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 505 0 $a Note on the translation -- Author's note: this diary -- Mobbed by darkness -- What place is this? -- Come, let us look for the dawn again. 520 $a "The Partition of India in 1947 left millions displaced amidst indiscriminate murders, rapes and looting. The Sixth River, originally published as Chhata Darya, is an extraordinary first-person account of that violent time. Born Ram Lal Bhatia in the town of Taunsa Sharif, then in the Punjab, Fikr Taunsvi left for the cosmopolitan city of Lahore in the 1930s. Here he worked with various newspapers, wrote poetry and articles, and became a part of the intellectual circle. But when independence was announced, Fikr was faced with a new reality--of being a Hindu in his beloved city, now in Pakistan. The Sixth River is the journal Fikr wrote from August to November 1947 as Lahore disintegrated around him. Fikr is angry at the shortsightedness and ineptness of Radcliffe, Nehru, Gandhi and Jinnah. In the company of likeminded friends such as Sahir Ludhianvi, he mourns the loss of the art and culture of Lahore in the bloodlust and deluded euphoria of freedom; and derides the newly converted, who adopted stereotypical religious symbols. He is bewildered when old friends suddenly turn staunch nationalists and advise him to either convert or leave the country. And the deep, unspeakable trauma millions faced during Partition reaches Fikr's doorstep when his neighbour murders his daughter, and when he is eventually forced to migrate to Amritsar in India. Powerful, ironic and deeply harrowing, The Sixth River is an invaluable account of the Partition. This brilliant translation by Maaz Bin Bilal makes the classic available in English for the first time."--Back cover. 546 $a Translated from the Urdu. 600 00 $a Fikr Taunswi $v Diaries. 651 0 $a India $x History $y Partition, 1947. 600 07 $a Fikr Taunswi. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00085030 651 7 $a India. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210276 648 7 $a 1947 $2 fast 655 2 $a Diary 655 7 $a Diaries. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423794 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Diaries. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Bilal, Maaz Bin, $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117012759.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F2E3DB3C56B111EEB3013A8641ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search