Discuss Tamas as a partition novel.

Tamas has to be considered one of the
strongest examples of Partition on the lives of regular people on the Indian subcontinent.
Partition was a concept designed by individuals in the position of political power. The
machinations and calculations of Hindu, Muslim, and British leaders and diplomats were akin to
carving up the Indian subcontinent. Their decisions made in abstractly politicized vacuums
impacted millions of ordinary people. Tamas depicts this reality. Sahni's
work displays how Partition impacted the common individual in the most horrific of ways. The
riots and communal violence created as a result of Partition is one contribution that Tamas
offered to the discourse of this sad chapter in Indian History. In relocating the story of
Partition from the geopolitical reality to the condition of regular people, Sahni's work serves
as a testament to the idea that the citizens must always deal with what happens on a political
level, and this can take on horrifying forms.