Parallels between Garam Hawa and Basti

I'm particularly interested in exploring any parallels that can be drawn between Basti and Garam Hawa and something that I've found extremely moving in both the book and movie is the event of Partition. We may always talk about the consequences borne out of partition in a given place at a given time but what the Partition itself meant is somehow always glossed over. Partition for a lot of people whether they were Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs was an extremely, extremely difficult process in which entire families and households were uprooted and in a sense exiled from their 'Basti'. This narrative is starkly different from the modern day narrative that we've grown up with, of Partition as necessary and important for our survival, but we've never been asked to think about the true necessity for it.

Another interesting parallel that I could find between both the novel and the movie, are the characters of Abba Jaan in Basti and Saleem Mirza in Garam Hawa. Both father figures are the archetypal patriarchal figure, who expound a strong shareef Muslim identity and slowly these figures see a diminishing of their former economic and social conditions. Abba Jaan has to leave Rupnagar for Vyaspur, Saleem Mirza has to leave his Haveli and rent out a house. Abba Jaan slowly becomes a silent character with no agency towards the end to the novel, whereas Saleem Mirza keeps repeating that Allah will take care of everything (even when he could have taken the Haveli from Haleem Mirza).