This title tells the story of India's ambivalent affair with the modern city through the myth of the journey between the village and the city, and the changes that myth has undergone. The book is divided into four sections. The first deals with the vicissitudes of the metaphor of journey, the second and third profile the hero as he negotiates the journey from the village to the city to the village, and the last section deals with the psychopathological journey from a poisoned village, splintering the self in a self-annihilating city, shown in the narration of certain aspects of the violence of 1946-8, in which Pakistan and India were born.
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