TAMAS means TAM, a Sanskrit word means DARKNESS. The content actually focused the riots during 1947 in Pakistan.
Sahni has given a fictional touch to the incidences occurred during the time.It shows the intense feelings of retaliations among Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs and the success of the divide and rule policy of the British.
The story has a flow, coherence and the originality of thoughts and the retention of reality to which the author was himself the witness.