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Train to Pakistan

Khushwant Singh’s novel of partition-era violence and sacrifice in a Punjab village
Also known as: “Mano Majra”
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Urnesha Bhattacherjee
Associate Editor, Britannica India
Urnesha Bhattacherjee
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Train to Pakistan, historical fiction novel, originally published as Mano Majra in 1956, by Indian author Khushwant Singh. Train to Pakistan is believed to be the first novel in English to take the partition of India as its subject. The partition, enacted under the Indian Independence Act of July 1947, split British India into the sovereign states of India and Pakistan along hastily drawn borders separating predominantly Hindu and predominantly Muslim regions. About 15,000,000 Hindus,...

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