As the deputy commissioner and magistrate of the district that is in a state of utter lawlessness, Hukum Chand tries to do what a bureaucrat is best at: he only plays safe. Here Khushwant Singh has portrayed a character of a confused magistrate in Hukum Chand.
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The police is almost clueless how to deal with the crisis. To add to this, the marauders whip up communal feelings and the exodus is now further exacerbated by loot and bloodshed. Similar thing happens to Hindus and Sikhs in Pakistan and they also come rushing to India almost penniless. They leave their relations and acquaintances behind, for not all Muslims decide to join the exodus. They leave their lifetime’s earning behind to be vandalized or robbed and go to a new land empty-handed.
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Muslims leave India and their exodus to Pakistan is not free from human sufferings. That is the time of partition, the summer of 1947. Despite everything, this drags Juggat Singh into the sphere of suspicion and he is taken into custody. It is their way of insulting Juggat, for he has not co-operated with them in the robbery in his own village and also for not maintaining good relationship with them. They kill Lala and while going back throw the bangles into the premises of Jugga. Once he leaves his house in the dead of the night for his love tryst with Nooran and it is the time the dacoits of Malli group choose to loot the moneylender Lala’s house. And the fellow is in love with Nooran, the daughter of the Muslim weaver, Chacha Imam Baksh. “Train to Pakistan” is the story of one Juggat Singh who is a history-sheeter living in the border village Mano Majra and the police has kept a constant watch on him.
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But the basics of history, the truth that is unassailable, remain the same, almost unchanged. There has been a plethora of versions, research theses and stuff.
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Probably the leadership of the hour had not done enough to allay the fear that was in the minds of common men: After British who would take care of us? Of our interests? No leader was so confident as to drive home the point that the land belonged to everybody there were conflicts of ambitions a few insecure leaders indulged in the brinkmanship et cetera, et cetera. It is worth ruminating, for nobody can deny, especially after such a historical blunder, that a nation should learn from history. Since then waves of those blame game have come and gone, some of them vigorously espoused and some other not so vigorously, yet the tragedy still haunts. This is a sort of seminal realization to dawn on Indian psyche.
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A subcontinent cannot be subjected to a partition on religious lines without inviting human tragedies of colossal proportions. Rather, it made me feel as though I were holding in my hand a contemporary novel where everything told or implied was known to me! The reason could be that the basic theme on which he based his novel almost remains the same, even to this day. Reading a book 55 years after it was first published should give the reader an impression that he is going through a classic or a book replete with imageries of yester years, yet no such thought ever occurred to me as I was poring over Khushwant Singh’s magnum opus “Train to Pakistan”. This is an enduring piece of literature and generations of readers would like it. Here is a novel that tries to record a memorable phase of Indian history through fictional route but the essence is hardly lost in the process. It is interesting to read historical novels where history is written as fiction.