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Review: but the content is very graphic and very sad considering the things that happened during this time - This is a very interesting book about the partition of India and Pakistan. It is written very well, but the content is very graphic and very sad considering the things that happened during this time. It is one thing to read about the experiences of that time, but this book is about how one small village went from muslims and hindus living together peacefully and harmoniously even after the partition started, but get torn apart neighbor against neighbor as the muslims were forced to relocate and then be finally sent on a train to Pakistan, and facing that trip when they know about the horrible and cruel massacure as trains are used to shuttle hindus from Pakistan, and muslims to India. Muslims decide to massacure Hindus coming across the border to Indian, and the Hindus decided to reciprocate with their own massacures of the Muslims. The story is about how one village managed to derail the massacure of their village members of Muslims who would have normally been facing the same fate as all previous trains. This book shows how people of two different religions can live together harmonously until interfered with by the tides of time and government policies. A really good book, and I would suggest anyone interested in Indian history of this time to read it to understand how it actually played out in some peoples lives.
Review: An artful mix of humor and horror. A powerful little novel. - TRAIN TO PAKISTAN, by Khushwant Singh, first published in 1956, is something of a classic in India, but I ran across it quite by accident. I'm glad I did, as it offers a quick and surprisingly entertaining - and educational - glimpse of the bloody civil war that erupted between the Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims in 1947 during the partition of a newly independent India. During this time distrust, fear and hatred ran rampant, causing formerly peaceful neighbors to betray and even murder each other over religious and political differences. Singh used the tiny, remote village of Mano Majra, situated near the border of the newly created state of Pakistan to illustrate how quickly things could change. The author's famously agnostic views play a prominent part in his story, particularly represented by Iqbal, the "stranger in town," an educated "social worker" whose questionable religious /ethnic identity leads to his arrest following a murder in the town. There is also an understated "love story" between Jugga, a Sikh petty criminal, and the daughter of the local Imam, which figures in. Singh's feelings about organized religion are stated thusly - "India is constipated with a lot of humbug. Take religion. For the Hindu, it means little besides caste and cow-protection. For the Muslim, circumcision and kosher meat. For the Sikh, long hair and hatred of the Muslim." And he has more to say - about Christians, ethics, philosophy ("muddleheadedness"), Yoga, reincarnation, etc. But you get the idea. There are generous helpings of sly humor and sarcasm here too in its portrayals of minor officials and religious clerics. But what takes center stage by story's end is the wholesale butchery and horror of this awful conflict, with its trains full of bodies going both ways across the border in those early days of the partition.I TRAIN TO PAKISTAN is Singh's best known book, and was also successfully adapted to the screen. It is a powerful little novel, no question. Very highly recommended. - Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #85,803 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #318 in Cultural Heritage Fiction #610 in Contemporary Literature & Fiction #5,094 in Literary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars (6,779) |
| Dimensions  | 5.5 x 0.5 x 8.25 inches |
| Edition  | Reprint |
| ISBN-10  | 0802132219 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0802132215 |
| Item Weight  | 8 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 192 pages |
| Publication date  | February 11, 1994 |
| Publisher  | Grove Press |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ but the content is very graphic and very sad considering the things that happened during this time
*by C***L on July 11, 2014*

This is a very interesting book about the partition of India and Pakistan. It is written very well, but the content is very graphic and very sad considering the things that happened during this time. It is one thing to read about the experiences of that time, but this book is about how one small village went from muslims and hindus living together peacefully and harmoniously even after the partition started, but get torn apart neighbor against neighbor as the muslims were forced to relocate and then be finally sent on a train to Pakistan, and facing that trip when they know about the horrible and cruel massacure as trains are used to shuttle hindus from Pakistan, and muslims to India. Muslims decide to massacure Hindus coming across the border to Indian, and the Hindus decided to reciprocate with their own massacures of the Muslims. The story is about how one village managed to derail the massacure of their village members of Muslims who would have normally been facing the same fate as all previous trains. This book shows how people of two different religions can live together harmonously until interfered with by the tides of time and government policies. A really good book, and I would suggest anyone interested in Indian history of this time to read it to understand how it actually played out in some peoples lives.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ An artful mix of humor and horror. A powerful little novel.
*by T***T on August 28, 2020*

TRAIN TO PAKISTAN, by Khushwant Singh, first published in 1956, is something of a classic in India, but I ran across it quite by accident. I'm glad I did, as it offers a quick and surprisingly entertaining - and educational - glimpse of the bloody civil war that erupted between the Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims in 1947 during the partition of a newly independent India. During this time distrust, fear and hatred ran rampant, causing formerly peaceful neighbors to betray and even murder each other over religious and political differences. Singh used the tiny, remote village of Mano Majra, situated near the border of the newly created state of Pakistan to illustrate how quickly things could change. The author's famously agnostic views play a prominent part in his story, particularly represented by Iqbal, the "stranger in town," an educated "social worker" whose questionable religious /ethnic identity leads to his arrest following a murder in the town. There is also an understated "love story" between Jugga, a Sikh petty criminal, and the daughter of the local Imam, which figures in. Singh's feelings about organized religion are stated thusly - "India is constipated with a lot of humbug. Take religion. For the Hindu, it means little besides caste and cow-protection. For the Muslim, circumcision and kosher meat. For the Sikh, long hair and hatred of the Muslim." And he has more to say - about Christians, ethics, philosophy ("muddleheadedness"), Yoga, reincarnation, etc. But you get the idea. There are generous helpings of sly humor and sarcasm here too in its portrayals of minor officials and religious clerics. But what takes center stage by story's end is the wholesale butchery and horror of this awful conflict, with its trains full of bodies going both ways across the border in those early days of the partition.I TRAIN TO PAKISTAN is Singh's best known book, and was also successfully adapted to the screen. It is a powerful little novel, no question. Very highly recommended. - Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, BOOKLOVER

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A harrowing journey to the inevitable...
*by L***S on April 12, 2002*

The summer of the Partition of India in 1947 marked a season of bloodshed that stunned and horrified those living through the nightmare. Entire families were forced to abandon their land for resettlement to Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India. Once that fateful line was drawn in the sand, the threat of destruction became a reality of stunning proportions. Travelers clogged the roads on carts, on foot, but mostly on trains, where they perched precariously on the roofs, clung to the sides, wherever grasping fingers could find purchase. Muslim turned against Hindu, Hindu against Muslim, in their frantic effort to escape the encroaching massacre. But the violence followed the refugees. The farther from the cities they ran, the more the indiscriminate killing infected the countryside, only to collide again and again in a futile attempt to reach safety. Almost ten million people were assigned for relocation and by the end of this bloody chapter, nearly a million were slain. A particular brutality overtook the frenzied mobs, driven frantic by rage and fear. Women were raped before the anguished eyes of their husbands, entire families robbed, dismembered, murdered and thrown aside like garbage until the streets were cluttered with human carnage. The trains kept running. For many remote villages the supply trains were part of the clockwork of daily life, until even those over-burdened trains, off-schedule, pulled into the stations, silent, no lights or signs of humanity, their fateful cargo quiet as the grave. At first the villagers of tiny Mano Majra were unconcerned, complacent in their cooperative lifestyle, Hindu, Sikh, Muslim and quasi-Christian. Lulled by distance and a false sense of security, the villagers depended upon one another to sustain their meager quality of life, a balanced system that served everyone's needs. There had been rumors of the arrival of the silent "ghost trains" that moved quietly along the tracks, grinding slowly to a halt at the end of the line, filled with slaughtered refugees. When the first ghost train came to Mano Majra the villagers were stunned. Abandoning chores, they gathered on rooftops to watch in silent fascination. With the second train, they were ordered to participate in burying the dead before the approaching monsoons made burial impossible. But reality struck fear into their simple hearts when all the Muslims of Mano Majra were ordered to evacuate immediately, stripped of property other than what they could carry. The remaining Hindus and Sikhs were ordered to prepare for an attack on the next train to Pakistan, with few weapons other than clubs and spears. The soldiers controlled the arms supply and would begin the attack with a volley of shots. When the people realized that this particular train would be carrying their own former friends and neighbors, they too were caught, helpless in the iron fist of history, save one disreputable (Hindu) dacoit whose intended (Muslim) wife sat among her fellow refugees. The story builds impressive steam as it lurches toward destiny, begging for the relief of action. In the end, the inevitable collision of conscience and expediency looms like a nacreous cloud above the hearts of these unsophisticated men, a mere slender thread of hope creating unbearable tension. I was impressed with the power of Singh's timeless narrative, as the characters are propelled toward a shattering climax, as potentially devastating as any incomprehensible actions of mankind's penchant for destruction. I was struck also, by the irony: how the proliferation of a rail system that infused previously unknown economic growth potential to formerly remote areas, also became the particular transport of Death. Only a few years earlier, a rail system in another part of the world carried innumerable Jews to Hitler's ovens, another recent barbaric use of Progress, originally intended to further enrich the potential accomplishments of the human race.

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