The putative narrative-which lacks the objectivity, of an innocence, Lenny, corresponds to the inadequacy in the nationalist discourse of Indian Partition. Cracking India can be read not just as devastation brought by ethnic bloodshed or a Hindu woman sullied by a Muslim horde, but as an occasion to probe into official historiography of Indian independence. Using post-feminist discourse, which is critical and not consent with the preliminary formulation of traditional feminist scholarship and perspective, this article argues Sidhwa in this novel tries to deal with a paradox-iconizing the female figure before and during the independence and ignorance and disregard to the female bodies that were cracking after the independence is achieved. This novel offers an insight into the complexity of position dedicated to female figure the novel provides an occasion to redefine the masculine logic of national independence. The female body which was used as national imagery for independence also invited a collision of voices. This is particularly evident in Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India, which has been a representative novel of Partition written in English it has been a great site for feminist explorations. One of the rich sites of exploration dwells on retrieving the testimonies of women who survived and suffered the trauma of ethnic carnage, rape and violence. Recent literary revisions of the history of the Partition of the Indian subcontinent have tried to explore the reverse side of official historiography of independence.
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