| ISSN: 2583-3812 | ISSN: 2583-3812JOURNAL ARTICLE
Keywords: Partition, Independence, Migration, Emergency, Realism
Abstract: The riots before and after the independence and partition of India became the theme of many Indian writers in English. The events in A Fine Family are reported before the reader in an objective manner and it is told by an independent narrator. The novel has three sections. The first one, Lyallpur, presents Bauji as a successful legal practitioner in the years immediately before Independence. The most important consequence of the freedom from British rule is the partition of the sub-continent. The communal clashes that accompanied it is the greatest catastrophe in the history of India. The second section presents the rebuilding of life in India by the migrant families and Tara’s life in Simla. The events leading to Emergency are described in detail in the third section. The central character of this section of the novel is Arjun, Bauji’s grandson. The later generation were born into a democratic secular socialist republic, and they are brought up by imbibing these democratic values. Hence, they expressed their moral indignation when freedom was outraged in the guise of the declaration of Emergency. To them Emergency is only a temporary insanity. The sufferings of the people at the time of partition are portrayed realistically in the novel. The miseries and hardships of an entire population who are forced to migrate from their native land is the most dismal consequence of independence. There is also the realistic portrayal of the tortures inflicted upon the victims of Emergency in the prison. A Fine Family provides a real critique of the Indian society from the pre-independent er`a till the post Emergency period.
Article Info: Received: 30 Sep 2025; Received in revised form: 23 Oct 2025; Accepted: 27 Oct 2025; Available online: 31 Oct 2025
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