In the summer of 1947, Mano Majra, a peaceful village on the frontier between India and Pakistan, is infected with the Sikh-Muslim violence hitherto beyond its borders when a train full of Sikh bodies rolls into town--and Juggut Singh, a Sikh gangster with a Muslim lover, must decide whether to take part in retaliation.
year: 1988, 1981
call number/section: 1000
subjects: sikhs, india, fiction, muslims, india-pakistan conflict, 1947-1949, india, pakistan, fiction, pakistan, india, political violence, fiction, pakistan, fiction, partition, 1947
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Khushwant Singh
Distributed by Orient Longman (1988)
In the summer of 1947, Mano Majra, a peaceful village on the frontier between India and Pakistan, is infected with the Sikh-Muslim violence hitherto beyond its borders when a train full of Sikh bodies rolls into town--and Juggut Singh, a Sikh gangster with a Muslim lover, must decide whether to take part in retaliation.
Schools: 1
Khushwant Singh
Distributed by Random House (1981)
In the summer of 1947, a train full of dead Sikhs stirs up a battlefield in the peaceful atmosphere of love and loyalty between the Muslims and the Sikhs in a village on the frontier between India and Pakistan.
Schools: 0