The proposed title of the paper attempts to have a critical study of the formation of a woman through the enclosures with a view from the inner courtyard of her space, amidst all the hindrances of the Partition struggling period and the dominant ideology of patriarchy. The novels selected for the study are A Promised Land andThe Woman’s Courtyard written by Khajida Mastoor in Urdu and translated by Daisy Rockwell. Both the novels serve the purpose of the aim of the paper as Mastoor has tried to project the inner lives of the women struggling dually amidst the chaos of Partition struggle in the outside of the political scenario. Partition Literature aims to highlight the experiences of the survivors; however, Mastoor’s literary piece has not only depicted the Partition Survival but also the experiences of women as both a survivor of partition and patriarchal trauma. Thus, the present paper has attempted to study analytically with textual interpretational trajectory of women’s experience at the center of a male narrative.

Partition, patriarchy, ideology, subjugation, Mastoor.