Githa Hariharan's fiction Fugitive Histories lends itself to a new historicist reading in terms of its thematic and narrative technicality. Writing in this postmodern/postcolonial era, Hariharan centers her text on the issue of communal disharmony embedded in the post independent nation-state that India is with its claims of secularism as its democratic principle. Fugitive Histories deals with the aftermath of the communal violence of 2002 in Godhra which results in the dislocation of a whole community that is marginalized within its own country. Sara the protagonist records the testimonials of the women who are the worst sufferers of the historical event so as to recreate the actual situation in the perspective of the victims. Hariharan in the process attempts at reconstructing history that has been written by those in power, challenging its ideology that is defined so finitely as the single truth. She seems to say that there are several other perspectives to history, that it is fugitive and shifting