In reply to mbh:
> A bit after partition, but you did say broad...A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry is a wonderful and heartbreaking novel on the Emergency period of the Indira Ghandi years, less than 30 years after partition.
One of my favourite novels ever.
I can also recommend VS Naipaul, his non-fiction is good, try "Beyond Belief", it's fabulous writing even though I disagree with its main thesis, also "A Million Mutinies Now" is great, written in 1990 but Partition is never that far away. His novel "A House for Mr Biswas" is very good but although it's about Indians, it's set in Trinidad so might be a bit too broad!