Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. Everything changes when, one day, a ‘ghost train’ arrives from Pakistan, full of dead bodies of Hindus, and plunges the village into religious hate. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Mano Majra is a Sikh-Muslim village where both communities have lived in harmony for centuries. We have hundreds of small Muslim villages. It will be impossible to prevent retaliation. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. I hope we do not get trains with corpses coming through Mano Majra. Copyright of Journal of Literature, Culture & Media Studies is the property of Chandra Publications and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission.There were several key individuals that shared the total responsibility of. But when there had to be change, chaos ensued. They, along with the Hindu and Sikh population, were living in relative peace.
In this novel we will see how communal frenzy engulfed the remote village of Mano Majra where Sikhs and Muslims had lived in peace for years. In the book Train to Pakistan, author Khushwant Singh recalls the brutal and unfortunate times when Muslims were being forced out of Mano Majra. Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan is replete with conflicts arising out of the partition of 1947. Thus, it resulted in the creation of Pakistan followed by the worst communal violence in the history of mankind. 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. It propagated the theory that Hindu and Muslim were two separate nations which could therefore, never live together. As a result, in 1906 the All India Muslim League was founded. The British had kept the communities apart to perpetuate their rule. It has been attributed to the British's 'Divide and Rule' policy. The partition of India in 1947 is the greatest setback in the history of India's integrity. But Partition does not mean much to the Sikhs and Muslims of Mano Majra, a village on the border of India and Pakistan. But in such a place where diversity prevails, the idea of separate geo-political national entities has become inevitable, the minorities being concerned for their future under the larger ethnic group. The scale of the violence and of the migrations that occurred during Partition To what extent does the novel imply that what occurs in Mano Majra is typical or. India is a multiethnic, multilingual, multicultural and multireligious society and she has been able to retain its unity in diversity. This paper intends to focus on the political crisis that a multi-cultural India faces in spite of its great effort to promote national integration amidst cultural mosaics. Abstract: The concept of integration is a benchmark for a future multiculturalism.