Literature produced during and post-Partition of India into India and Pakistan reflects the greatest massacre of the century in a vivid sense. The very formation of the Radcliff line based on religion remains a problematic fact, building up the two separate nation states out of the groups of people who shared similar identities, past, present and aspired for a similar future. This partition also gave rise to a new form of tension and uncertainty in the South Asian sub-continent. Citizens born across these borders later on tend to have national pride based on whimsical political claims instigated by the individual governments of the particular nations. While these citizens took up national pride, the very nation that they belonged to remained a matter of probability if looked through the lens of the Partition of the nations in South Asia. The literature that deals with the Partition of the Indian subcontinent talks about the dislocation, uprooting, and going away of the people of a society that previously lived in peace and harmony, resulting in the most gruesome human-made catastrophe of the century. This paper, through the context of Khushwant Singh’s “Train to Pakistan”, Manto’s “Toba Tek Singh”, and “The Assignment”, tracks how religion, which is meant to be the way of living, being politicized resulted in the massacre of humanity.