Critical analysis of train to pakistan by khushwant singh

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The priest obliges and asks the young man for his name, which is Iqbal. The young man goes to the gurdwara and asks Meet Singh if he can stay for a few days. His manners suggest that he does not belong in the village. From the other end of the train, a young man steps out. When the train from Delhi to Lahore arrives, twelve armed policemen and the subinspector disembark. The next morning, the railway station is crowded. While Chand is alone with her, he hears one of the gunshots from the dacoity.

That evening, an old woman and a young girl wearing a black, studded sari arrive at the rest house. Chand asks if arrangements have been made for him to have a prostitute that evening, and the subinspector assures Chand that he will have his entertainment before returning to the police station. When Chand then asks if there are any bad characters in the area, the subinspector mentions Jugga, but says that Nooran keeps him out of trouble. Some know who Mahatma Gandhi is, but the subinspector doubts that anyone knows of Mohammed Ali Jinnah. Mano Majrans may not even know that the British have left or that India has been partitioned. He asks the subinspector of police if there has been any trouble between the religious groups and the latter assures him that there have not been any вЂњconvoys of dead SikhsвЂќ as there have been in a nearby town. Hukum Chand, the magistrate and deputy commissioner, arrives to Mano Majra the morning before the dacoity. Jugga recognizes one as Malli-the gangвЂ™s leader. While the couple lays in the dark, they see the five robbers pass on their way to the river.

Jugga, meanwhile, is having a tryst with Nooran when they hear the shots fired during the dacoity. While fleeing Ram LalвЂ™s house, the robbers pass by the home of former robber Juggut Singh, known as the most dangerous man in Mano Majra and often called вЂњJugga.вЂќ One of the robbers throws stolen bangles into JuggaвЂ™s courtyard to implicate him in the crime. A tiny place with only three brick buildings-a gurdwara, where Meet Singh presides as its resident bhai a mosque led by the mullah and weaver Imam Baksh and the home of the Hindu moneylender, Lala Ram Lal-Mano Majra becomes the site of a notorious dacoity, which results in Ram LalвЂ™s murder. Northern India is in turmoil, though the isolated village of Mano Majra remains, for now, at peace. In the summer of 1947, ten million Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs flee from their homes on each side of the new border between Pakistan and India. He then practiced in the Lahore High Court for a Few Years. He was was born in 1915 in Hadali in pre-partition Punjab and Educated at Government College, Lahore and at King's College and the Inner Temple in London.

The book Train to Pakistan was written by Khushwant Singh. The paper aims to comprehensively analyze a character of the novel Train to Pakistan, the contributions and actions of the character in the novel and critically evaluate its pros and cons. Knowing that how easy it is to light the fuse of hatred and intransigence and how terribly easy it is to get those who were neighbors for generations to kill in cold blood to each other, Singh wrote this wonderful novel away from the large numbers of humanitarian tragedies and leads to the house of exile in the night to pick up quickly what little they have and get on with his family to a military truck to an unknown destination (Khushwant, 1961). Khushwant Singh wrote Train to Pakistan after witnessing himself the unfortunate events in the Punjab during the summer.

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The novel is about how to stay calm in extreme situations and especially, about how little can one trust the neighbor of a lifetime in one of these extreme approaches. Train to Pakistan is a novel that talks about concrete and simple people, and what happens when they reach the flames of the burning of the collective madness. It is true that develops in a very definite historical context (and brilliantly exposed, it must be said), but Khushwant Singh does not care so much religion, history or politics as the way they affect people. Train to Pakistan is not a historical novel.