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2025
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| Accesso online: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17459392 |
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- <p><strong><em><span>Abstract: </span></em></strong><em><span>This paper discusses Homen Borgohain’s Spring in Hell not only as an expression of urban squalor but also as an exploration of the socio-economic and psychological long run effects of the 1947 Partition of India. Although the narrative lacks explicit violence and crossings across borders, it is very meticulous in the way it is describing the lives of refugees like Monimala and Rahim, who come to Assam during post-Partition migrations. The story is set in a basti (slum) and is a type of visceral microcosm of societal degradation, exploitation and the loss of moral principles that became standardized in the existence of the displaced. In his social realist style, Borgohain emphasizes the way poverty and alienation transforms the human life.<strong> </strong>This paper argues that Borgohain takes the Partition literature a step further into the political and communal violence itself by presenting a deeper long-lasting trauma characterized by alienation and loss of moral fabric. The survival of the basti with its methods of corruption and torture portrays the concealed price of Partition in the multigenerational level. The harbinger of hope in terms of independence is used against the bad realities of displacement through the ironic title, Spring in Hell. In such a way, Borgohain brings an essential, nuanced dimension to the overall canon of Partition.</span></em></p> <p><strong><span>Keywords: Partition Literature, Homen Borgohain, Spring in Hell, Social Realism, displacement.</span></strong></p>