A brief Summary and Analysis of Saadat Hasan Manto's The Price of Freedom

Manto reveals the sufferings and psychological trauma of individuals during the times of Indian freedom struggle. He portrays the difficulties which people were facing because of partition.
Manto also explores violence over the female body. Nigar remains voiceless in the face of the manipulation and oppressive dictums of Babaji. Moreover, she does not have any opportunity to take any decisions; she keeps moving between the ideology and the wishes of both Ghulam Ali and Babaji. Nigar’s body is reduced to a mere womb, an object, a means for Ghulam Ali to achieve the goal he considers to be his life’s true purpose. 
The author demonstrates the manner in which patriotic, nationalistic ideals and ideology were meant to generate a group of people in order to manipulate them to submit to their victimization.


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