From the railway station to the roof of the rest house … the whole place was littered with men, women, children, cattle, and dogs …. Where in India could one find a place that did not teem with life?
Iqbal thought of his first reaction on reaching Bombay. Milling crowds—millions of them—on the quayside, in the streets, on railway platforms; even at night the pavements were full of people. In the summer of , ten million Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs flee from their homes on each side of the new border between Pakistan and India.
Northern India is in turmoil, though the isolated village of Mano Majra remains, for now, at peace. Jugga, meanwhile, is having a tryst with Nooran when they hear the shots fired during the dacoity.
While the couple lays in the dark, they see the five robbers pass on their way to the river. Hukum Chand , the magistrate and deputy commissioner, arrives to Mano Majra the morning before the dacoity. Mano Majrans may not even know that the British have left or that India has been partitioned. The book has been awarded with , and many others. Please note that the tricks or techniques listed in this pdf are either fictional or claimed to work by its creator.
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Khushwant Singh opens his novel Train to Pakistan in a seemingly peaceful village on the countryside of Punjabi. Although the small village is fictional, it is important to note the historical significance this village, its people, and the time period represent in the novel.
Train to Pakistan, the first novel on the theme of Partition, is a brilliant and realistic story of political hatred, violence, and of mass passions during those turbulent and fateful days that preceded. The first edition of this novel was published in , and was written by Khushwant Singh. The book was published in multiple languages including English language, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format.
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