It is also the story of a Sikh boy and a Muslim girl whose love endures and transcends the ravages of war.

Train to Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. Then one day, at the end of the summer, the “ghost train” arrives, a silent, incredible funeral train loaded with the bodies of thousands of refugees, bringing the village its first taste of the horrors of the civil war. One of these villages was Mano Majra.” It is a place, Khushwant Singh goes on to tell us at the beginning of this classic novel, where Sikhs and Muslims have lived together in peace for hundreds of years. The only remaining oases of peace were a scatter of little villages lost in the remote reaches of the frontier. Train to Pakistan is the story of this isolated village that is plunged into the abyss of religious hate. S.Meenakshi ABSTRACT Train to Pakistan, the first novel on the theme of partition & freedom is a brilliant and realistic story of political hatred, violence and of mass passions during those turbulent and fateful days that preceded and followed the Partition of the British India. “In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the new state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people-Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs-were in flight, By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was in arms, in terror, or in hiding. Then one day, at the end of the summer, the ghost train arrives, a silent, incredible funeral train loaded with the bodies of thousands of refuges, bringing the village its first taste of the horrors of the civil war.

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