History has been the major preoccupation of the recent Indian novelists in English. There is a view that many of our contemporary Indian English novelists are overburdened with history. Yet Rohinton Mistry‟s novels do not suffer from such excesses. Mistry„s works seek to evolve a vision that involves both the community-centered existence of the Parsis and their involvement with the wider national framework. His novels depict consciousness of anxieties and aspirations, perils and problems of the existence of the individuals, communal and national issues. Mistry shows how the historical and political events in post-independence India, like war, partition and the Emergency have left an unfortunate mark on the psyche of the average Indian. Mistry‟s writings absorb the complexities of living on the margins within the turbulence of political strife and changing equations of power in the sub-continent. Keywords: History, Indo-China War, Bangladesh, Indo-Pakistan war, Partition, Indian Politics, Emergency, Babri Masjid, Parsis, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs.