Saga of the Partition, Silenced History and Trauma through Manju Kapur’s Difficult Daughters

Author(s)	Dr. Rashmi Jain, Tameen F Faruqi
Country	India
Abstract	From the shadows of upheaval, Manju Kapur's Difficult Daughters unfolds a story stitched with loss. Not just borders split but lives bent under forced journeys across uncertain terrain. Through Virmati, then Ida, then others, time folds into itself showing how pain travels bloodlines. Home becomes a word without weight when entire families drift on trains full of silence. What burned beneath wasn’t property alone but names erased before they could be spoken loudly. Women carried histories no one wrote down, yet those stories shaped what came next. Violence didn’t knock - it slipped inside meals, glances, arranged silences at dinner tables. Their bodies became ground fought over while their voices faded behind walls built by custom. Identity frayed like old cloth torn between hands too tired to mend. Memory lingers not in dates but in gestures passed quietly from mother to daughter. Some truths remain unspoken simply because there’s never enough light left after dark.
Keywords	Partition, trauma, hidden history, violence, identity
Field	Sociology > Linguistic / Literature
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 1, January-February 2026
Published On	2026-02-13

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