Psychological Trauma in Shiv K. Kumar’s A River with Three Banks

Abstract

In our recent history, the partition of India is one of the most traumatic experiences which disturbed the Indian soil and its social fabric as well. A terrible change was brought by the partition in the lives of the major religious communities, Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs. They had lived together very happily and also dreamed for the freedom but after the announcement of partition by Lord Mountbatten on 3^rd of June 1947, the Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs became enemies of each other and resulted in a sharp end to a long and communal shared history.