When it was reported that the Muslim mobs had tried to molest Hindu women, they had killed their. This shows how a train can give and take life away. Hukum Chand considered Hindu women to be unlike other women.
Trainloads of dead crossed the border, as people in vengeance sought an insane form of justice. Instead of joy in freedom, it was misery and bloodshed that greeted many of the new citizens. Thousands of refugees perished during the exodus, when a Pakistan was split from India. Although fiction, the background events are real. This is mostly because his purpose is to bring out the individual, human element and provide a social understanding, two aspects of historical events which tend to be either ignored or not covered effectively in texts. Khushwant Singh does not describe the politics of the Partition in much detail. The novel was primerily named Mano Majra but singh changed it to “Train to Pakistan” which is more relevant in showing the distress caused due the Indo-pak partition. The people regardless of being the acquaintances they made a plan to kill them on the basis of the religion they followed. Chand misguides the people from the beginning and arrests Juggut Singh. The story has a similar notion of the wagon tragedy of kerela ,happened in 1921. Corruption in the ruling class is also pictured well in the novel. The train to pakistan also has a metaphor of life because one of the main character juggut singh helps the people but the ending was inevitable. The first train which is coming to mano majra being a train filled with dead bodies shows how a train journey brings life to an end. This novel have more than one metaphor, the train being both a metaphor of life and death. He single handedly foils the plan to butcher the train passengers sacrificing his own life in the process. The Muslim lover of the village baddie Juggut Singh is supposed to be on the train. Some hotheaded Sikhs from outside the village hatch a plan to kill the Muslims on the train before it it sent to Pakistan. Government plans to evacuate Muslims from the village to Pakistan to ensure their safety against the wishes of even the Sikh villagers. Some refugees also troop in from the border.
Sikhs and Muslims live in harmony in the village till a train full of dead people arrives from Pakistan. Although he has relations with a young girl, he is the most. Seen from the eyes of Hukum Chand the District Magistrate it is an account of the turmoil faced by the inhabitants of village Mano Majra in Punjab on the Indo- Pak border during the period of partition after India attained independence. Judge Hukum Chand, who is obsessed with death, is very respected, kind, charitable and tolerant.
On the engine, they scrawled, Gift to Pakistan. The book tittled “train to pakistan” will bring about a lot of scaring images to the mind of people who knows the events happened in 1947. Hukum Chand tells the subinspector how the Sikhs retaliated by attacking a Muslim refugee train and sending it back across the border with over a thousand Sikh corpses. Train to pakistan is a classic written by khushwant sing about the partition of indian and pakistan.