Manto's Story: The Pity Of Partition By Ayesha Jalal

Talking about Indo-Pak Partition, it was the most affecting event of the people in the history of the sub-continent. Hundreds and Thousands of people were killed and exploited in the name of a separate land. No other example comes close to brutality except this.
Bombay was Manto's heaven, where he could be all "Happy". But after Partition the state of being happy came to an end. Manto was in Bombay when he heard the news of Pakistan: the British dividing Subcontinent at last. Manto would ask later after all the killings broken out around him "Now that we were free, had subjection ceased to exist? Who would be our slaves? Thousands of Hindus and Muslims were dying all around us. Why were they dying?"
The answer was near; the communal atmosphere

How he analyzed the human psyche so deep and wrote it down. The message behind his stories are positive and the misconceptions about his stories. Since Manto is a literary giant, books have a deep link with him. Manto has written so many books and what else can be more reliable than reading his own thoughts is his stories and analyze it on your own mind.
Other than that, there are several books that have been written about Manto. The most prominent one is "The pity of Partition" by Ayesha Jalal. Ayesha Jalal is a Pakistani-American historian. She is the grandniece of the renowned Urdu fiction writer Saadat Hasan Manto and the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University and a 1998 MacArthur Fellow.
"Researching on Manto Abajan has been quite a revelation; there were so many aspects of his personality, life, and work that I did not know. The experience was immensely rewarding, and I am gratified to be able to bring this book on the occasion of his birth centenary. Manto had planned to publish a book based on his friends' recollections of him so that reader can get a close and personal view of what he was really like. Inspired by a couplet by the late nineteenth century Urdu poet Mirza Asad Ullah Khan Ghalib, Manto referred to the task as a "nail's debt", meaning no debt at all, which his friend owed him. Whether he would consider his grandniece's debt to him as paid will sadly never be known"