# Tamas

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- Authors: [Bhisham Sahni](https://www.bookquiver.com/bhisham-sahni)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2025-10-02

## Description

Tamas , Bhisham Sahni’s 1973 novel, is a product of the Partition’s devastation. It drew immediate and universal critical acclaim for its poignant and striking retelling of Partition and its bloody aftermath. Tamas is a story about how simmering communal tensions snowball into full-fledged riots that grip villages across the subcontinent. In a city in undivided Punjab, Nathu, a tanner, is bribed to kill a pig. When the animal’s carcass is discovered on the steps of the local mosque the next morning, brewing tensions explode into riots and massacre. A seemingly well planned and executed job by the British plants seeds of mistrust and hatred among those who, until the day before, had been close friends and neighbours. Tamas is a chilling reminder of the consequences of religious intolerance and communal prejudice.

## Editions

### Tamas

- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4313-805-1
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2025-10-02
- Language: en_GB