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Kitne Pakistan (translation: How Many Pakistan?〔) is a 2000 Hindi novel by Kamleshwar, noted 20th-century Hindi writer, a pioneer of the ''Nayi Kahani'' ("New Story") movement of the 1950s, and later screenwriter for Hindi cinema. The novel combines allegory and realism, and deals with a vast expanse of human history, as it follows the rise of sectarianism, nationalism and communalism. Raising questions about the true motives of the people who make decision on the behalf and for common people, who throughout the history have bore the brunt of their decision. It witnesses the violence, separation and bloodshed in the aftermath of partition of India in 1947 and examines the nature and futility of divisive politics and religion.〔 It won the 2003 Sahitya Akademi Award for Hindi, given by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sahitya Akademi Awards listings )〕 Today, the novel is considered as author's finest work,〔 and one of the classics of modern Hindi literature. ==History== Kamleshwar started working his ambitious novel in May 1990, aiming to understand Partition through allegory and realism. The first English translation of the novel came in 2001, in an partition anthology ''Translating partition'' published by Katha, which also featured works by Saadat Hasan Manto and Bhisham Sahni. This was followed by another translation by Ameena Kazi Ansari, ''Partitions'' was published by Penguin Books in 2006, subsequently it was widely anthologised, It has been subject of several critical studies, including ''Partition stories : mapping community, communalism, and gender'' (2009) by Vinod K Chopra. In 2013, the another study, ''Kitne Pakistan: sampradayika vimarsha'' (Dialogue on communalism) of the novel was published by Pratapsingh Rajput. The novel achieved both popular and critical acclaim, it has been translated into several languages including Marathi and French.〔 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kitne Pakistan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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