Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan as a Partition Novel

For those of us alive today, it is undeniably hard to imagine the exact circumstances and atmosphere of events that have already gone by and are now a part of history. Nevertheless, though we cannot picture with clarity the tumultuous events that have shaped the reality we currently live in, there are traces everywhere of the profound impact that these events have left. India as a nation has a chequered history of countless such events, both horrifying and inspiring, that have shaped it as a country. Two centuries of colonization, the fight for independence, the divide-and-rule policy of the British, poverty, famine, discrimination, and battles. And of course, the Partition of India.