http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).15
10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).15
Published : Mar 2023
Historical Negationism and Epistemological Misrepresentation of Jinnah and Muslims in the Film Viceroy's House
Viceroy’s House” by Gurinder Chadha is a 106 minutes long film released in English and Hindi in 2017. The film is about the last days of the British Raj and the subsequent partition of India in 1947. The film is based on the books "Freedom at Midnight (1975") and "The Shadow of the Great Game:The Untold Story of Partition (2005"). The film documents the period of the last Viceroy of India Lord Mountbatten who was missioned to handover freedom to India but unfortunately ended in the partition of India in his course of responsibilities. The current study discusses the misrepresentation of Jinnah the founder of Pakistan portrayed as an ambitious politician who wanted the division of India in line with imperial designs. This historical negationism and epistemological misrepresentation is in line with Corrigan's (2015) discussion about ideology in films where he discusses how films dominate and sometimes distort ways of seeing the world.
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Viceroy's House, Partition, Pakistan, Jinnah and Cinema
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(1) Muhammad Ibrahim Khokhar
Assistant Professor, Institute of English Language and Literature, Shah Abdul Latif University, Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan.
(2) Malik Mohammad Iqbal
PhD Scholar, National University of Modern Languages NUML, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(3) Mushtaque Ahmed Solangi
Assistant Professor, Dawood University of Engineering and Technology, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan.
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Cite this article
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APA : Khokhar, M. I., Iqbal, M. M., & Solangi, M. A. (2023). Historical Negationism and Epistemological Misrepresentation of Jinnah and Muslims in the Film Viceroy's House. Global Language Review, VIII(I), 150-161. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).15
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CHICAGO : Khokhar, Muhammad Ibrahim, Malik Mohammad Iqbal, and Mushtaque Ahmed Solangi. 2023. "Historical Negationism and Epistemological Misrepresentation of Jinnah and Muslims in the Film Viceroy's House." Global Language Review, VIII (I): 150-161 doi: 10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).15
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HARVARD : KHOKHAR, M. I., IQBAL, M. M. & SOLANGI, M. A. 2023. Historical Negationism and Epistemological Misrepresentation of Jinnah and Muslims in the Film Viceroy's House. Global Language Review, VIII, 150-161.
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MHRA : Khokhar, Muhammad Ibrahim, Malik Mohammad Iqbal, and Mushtaque Ahmed Solangi. 2023. "Historical Negationism and Epistemological Misrepresentation of Jinnah and Muslims in the Film Viceroy's House." Global Language Review, VIII: 150-161
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MLA : Khokhar, Muhammad Ibrahim, Malik Mohammad Iqbal, and Mushtaque Ahmed Solangi. "Historical Negationism and Epistemological Misrepresentation of Jinnah and Muslims in the Film Viceroy's House." Global Language Review, VIII.I (2023): 150-161 Print.
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OXFORD : Khokhar, Muhammad Ibrahim, Iqbal, Malik Mohammad, and Solangi, Mushtaque Ahmed (2023), "Historical Negationism and Epistemological Misrepresentation of Jinnah and Muslims in the Film Viceroy's House", Global Language Review, VIII (I), 150-161
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TURABIAN : Khokhar, Muhammad Ibrahim, Malik Mohammad Iqbal, and Mushtaque Ahmed Solangi. "Historical Negationism and Epistemological Misrepresentation of Jinnah and Muslims in the Film Viceroy's House." Global Language Review VIII, no. I (2023): 150-161. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2023(VIII-I).15