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Bureaucratic Logic and Institutional Language in Manto's Siyah Hashiye

This article seeks to uncover the formalist and linguistic interventions of Saadat Hasan Manto’s often-marginalized micro-fiction collection, Siyah Hashiye (Black Margins), which captures the catastrophic aftermath of the 1947 Partition in its everyday mundanity. While traditional scholarship has solely focused on Mant...