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Published in 1955, Saadat Hasan Manto's “Toba Tek Singh” revolves around the issues of partition violence, the trauma of displacement, identity crisis, and the complexities of human psychology and so on. This paper attempts to study a madman's plight and dilemma to come to terms with the decision of exchanging mental patients based on their religious identity after the partition of India. The study again tries to highlight the madness of the people and the total disorder leading to an atmosphere of hostility and communal violence. It is a qualitative research where a textual analysis method is used, taking postcolonial theory as its theoretical scheme to analyze “Toba Tek Singh” in the contemporary context. The paper also seeks to highlight the issue of the postcolonial identity crisis of millions of people like Bishan Singh and their refusal to accept partition. The analysis is further substantiated by the data taken from secondary sources related to the field of study.