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Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan is a novel set in a fictional town Mano Majra where Muslims and Sikhs coexisted in peace, unaware of India's independence or partition. When a train full of corpses arrived in Mano Majra from Lahore, the air became heavy with fear, mistrust and vengeance and the situation in the town threatened to turn as tense as was the case in much of North India.
Khushwant Singh was born on February 2, 1915 in the village of Hadali in what is now the Punjab province of Pakistan. He attended St. Stephen's College in Delhi, Government College in Lahore, and King's College London. In 1947, he worked for India's ministry of external affairs and served as press officer in Ottawa and London.
Khushwant Singh’s historical novel A Train to Pakistan is set in the fictional town of Mano Majra during the summer of 1947, the year of the infamously bloody Partition of India. Following World War II, Great Britain granted its former colony independence and then divided it into the states of India and Pakistan—an attempt to dispel bitter religious tensions by providing a separate homeland for Indian Muslims.
Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan reveals the futility of blaming one another for the unfortunate and horrible event. Keywords: Devastation, abhorrence, Tolerance, Colonization, discrimination and empathy Khushwant Singh was a renowned novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, columnist, historian and editor.
Sunder Singh. A Sikh soldier who had fought in Burma, Eritrea, and Italy and won medals for his bravery in battle. The government gives him land in Sindh, Pakistan. Along with his wife and three young children… read analysis of Sunder Singh.
Khushwant Singh’s 'Train to Pakistan' uses the bloody history of India’s Partition as the backdrop for creating a fictional account of the common masses’ experience during the August of 1947. This paper majorly explores the politics of identity among the newly liberated people by engaging with Khushwant Singh’s novel.
