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Abstract

This research paper highlights the comparative analysis of the novels Ice Candy Man by Bapsi Sidhwa and Tamas by Besham Sahni The current study is qualitative in nature and while applying the method of close reading analysis the texts of two novels by the authors who have played key role in portraying the partition events with utmost degree of sincerity. The research study investigates how these novelists present saga of partition and also draws line of demarcation between their skills as the novelist.  The current study is undertaken with the perspectives of New Historicism a theoretical framework suggested by Greenblatt.