Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Politics in India Since Independence: Challenges of nation Building

Question:

What phrase was used by the survivors of partition and poets to describe the partition of India and Pakistan?

Options:

Division of nations

Division of lives

Division of souls

Division of hearts

Correct Answer:

Division of hearts

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 4 - Division of hearts

Writers, poets and film-makers in India and Pakistan have expressed the ruthlessness of the killings and the suffering of displacement and violence in their novels, short-stories, poems and films. While recounting the trauma of Partition, they have often used the phrase that the survivors themselves used to describe partition — as a ‘division of hearts’.