In Cracking India, we have a dual representation of female identity. We see, in the novel, a society where sexual objectification and exploitation of women is part of the routine. Even though Sidhwa has created empowered female characters in Cracking India and has given to the story a female perspective from Lenny’s point of view, she has also shown to the reader the reality lived by women in India. Bapsi Sidhwa’s novel Cracking India, which has garnered considerable attention as a trenchant portrayal of the violence surrounding the Partition, can profitably be explored as an examination of such violence, for it depicts a broad cross-section of Lahore society, both before and after the city became a part of Pakistan. In the months immediately preceding and following the creation of “free” nation-states, untold numbers of murders, kidnappings, rapes and arsons were committed by ordinary citizens of all the major religious groups (Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs) caught up in the turmoil. The 1947 Partition of British India into two independent nations (India and Pakistan) was accompanied by communal violence unspeakable in its brutality and ferocity.
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