BOOK SUMMARY OF PARTITIONS
Kamleshwar’s Kitne Pakistan enjoys cult status as a novel that dared to ask
crucial questions about the making and writing of history.
With India’s partition in 1947 as its reference point, the novel presents a
limitless canvas against which the most extraordinary trial in the history of
mankind runs its course. Present in a court that transcends space and time are
Mughal Emperors Babar and Aurangzeb, Spanish adventurer Hernando Cortez, Lord
Mountbatten, Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein. Along with political leaders,
religious zealots and scheming gods of mythology, they stand accused of creating
countless fractured nations, leaving a never-ending