Historical and Literary Background of Migration and Devender Isar’s Nostalgia

ہجرت کا تاریخی وادبی منظرنامہ اور دیویندر اسّر کا ناسٹلجیا

Abstract

Expressing melancholy and emotional yearning of the past time, called Nostalgia is cause of people movement from homeland to other city, state, country or region, seeking for employment, education, political asylum, citizenship or persuading security in safer and less crimes places or safeguard from environmental disaster etc. is called migration which, since long, has resulted in manifold complications. As an immigrant, despite of forcedly bifurcating from his homeland for one reason or the other, he can never eradicate his past memories and deep attachments with motherland. Soon after the division of subcontinent, people of the area also left their origin to settle down in new country for safety and security but during crossing the durned line, brutal violence and pitiless massacres on both sides caused enormous killing of family members and abduction of young girls and women.