Indian independence is in fact a historical event but as it came with the Partition of the subcontinent into two, it became the matter of heart and psyche for almost all the Indians as the people, cities and towns and the culture and heritage shared for so many years got divided overnight. Many novelists from India and abroad took up this event to encompass it into the covers of novel riding on their creative wings. Attia Hosain’s novel, Sunlight on a Broken Column is one of them. Though the novel is based on the theme of Partition and the destruction of the big Taluqdars household, it involves multiple themes in the form of small narratives. These narratives like the life of the narrator heroine in a big Taluqdar family and the destruction of the system of Taluqdars with the partition of the nation, the theme of love and marriage, the theme of the Muslim life in India, their plight at the time of leaving this homeland at the time of Partition, the theme of Purdah system for women in big Taluqdar family, the partition of the subcontinent and its horrible aftereffects. It is very interesting to study and fathom into the depth of the narratives and separate each one of them that has made a single narrative of the novel.