Critical Analysis of the Urdu Short Story “The New Constitution” As a Colonial Tragedy

Abstract

Saadat Hassan Manto (1912-1955) published his short story “The New Constitution in (1938). He is the most prominent and controversial short story writer in the history of Urdu fiction. The new Constitution written in the context of the Government of India Act 1935 is one of his representative short stories. The main character of this short story is Mangu Kochwaan. The people of the subcontinent, who were part of the British colonization for the past eighty-eight years and were, facing persecution, began to understand that the new constitution would bring about changes in their lives. Mangu Kuchwan represents this entire situation in the short story that ends with the tragedy that nothing has changes with the new constitution in the colonial system. This article critically analyzed the short story “the new constitution” as a colonial tragedy.