The only remaining passes of peace were a scatter of little villages lost in the remote reaches of the frontier. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of Northern India was in arms, in terror, or in hiding. “In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the new state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people- Muslims and Sikhs- were in fight. Following is the statement from the novel’s summary, which reads, The novel not only depicts the separation in terms of political happenings surrounding it but also takes its readers into a hidden local center, providing a social aspect that brings to the event a sense of realism, fear and plausibility. The novel revolves around the Indian Independence era in August 1947. Train to Pakistan is a novel written by Khushwant Singh published in the year 1956.
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