This chapter examines Bapsi Sidhwa’s Cracking India (1991), a fictional retelling of the Partition between India and Pakistan in 1947 by a child narrator, Lenny, who reflects on the childhood memories of her polio-stricken body alongside the traumatic Partition of the Indian subcontinent. It is argued that the socio-political space in the text is conferred by the two parallel threads—the first is about home and everyday personal challenges, and the second is about the Partition, communal conflict, and mass exodus. Through textual analysis, the study brings attention to three key issues in the novel: first, the cartographic contestation of the Indian subcontinent; second, the imprint of Partition violence on the bodies of men, women, and children; and third, the use of disability as an opportunistic metaphorical device to underscore the negative material reality of particular socio-political contexts. The analysis emphasises the complex negotiation between the material and metaphorical modes of illustration, where the imagery of breaking, cracking, pain, and blood embodies the complex body politics at both individual and national levels. In essence, the chapter explores how Cracking India evokes minorities’ experiences of conflict and reveals multiple layers of the India-Pakistan region’s history of Partition and decolonisation.