[1][failed verification] Mano Majra, the fictional village on the border of Pakistan and India in which the story takes place, is predominantly Muslim and Sikh.

One day in Mano Majra, a group of robbers enter Hindu moneylender Lala Ram Lal's home and murder him while stealing his belongings.

The criminals, who were previously acquainted with Jaggat, throw a bag of broken bangles in the courtyard of his house as they leave.

The magistrate is given befitting accommodations by the superintendent, who arranges for a group of performers and a young muslim prostitute to entertain him.

As time passes, tensions rise, the nearby Sutlej River gets flooded and the villagers see the corpses of hundreds of dead people.

Another train of dead Sikhs arrive and the magistrate tells the superintendent to ensure that the muslims will leave to a nearby refugee camp.

When the cars from the Muslim commander arrive, they say the refugees can only take what they can carry, bringing up the question of their cattle and expensive belongings.

The Sikh police officer in charge decides to give the role of safeguarding the belongings to Malli, who is of another village.

The Sikh militants develop a plan to put a large steel rope 20 feet high above the tracks.

If groups of people are examined on a closer level than their religious attachments, a more detailed social structure emerges.

He has a quick wash, stands facing west towards Mecca and with his fingers in his ears cries in long sonorous notes, Allah-o-Akbar" (4).

He is often described with a dirty physical appearance as if he is overwhelmed with unclean actions and sins, and is just as often trying to wash himself of them, similar to Pontius Pilate after Christ was condemned.

Hukum Chand’s ethical issues are shown in one of repeated encounters he has with two geckos, which likely represent Muslims and Hindus in conflict, on the verge of fighting each other.

He feels the guilt of his actions by day and relieved of them by night, when his alcohol is able to justify trysts with a teenage prostitute the same age as his deceased daughter.

Iqbal is described as a slightly effeminate, well-educated and atheist social worker from Britain who thinks politically (and cynically).

Juggut is a towering, muscular, and uneducated villager who places action over thought and is known for frequent arrests and gang problems.

Train to Pakistan, with its multiple gruesome and explicit accounts of death, torture, and rape for the public to read, makes the case that people do need to know about the bad.

This is mostly because his purpose is to bring out the individual, human element and provide a social understanding, two aspects of historical events which tend to be either ignored or not covered effectively in texts.

The effect of the change, however, was significant and as Singh has shown, frighteningly, social, as religious groups rearranged and clashed violently.

Iqbal has an affinity for English costumes and practices, "his countrymen's code of morals had always puzzled him, with his anglicized way of looking at things.

Her death deeply affects him and fuels his detached, utilitarian style of policing; he centers on saving as many lives as possible, at any cost.

For example, when Chand is reflecting on the train massacre, he focuses on his memories of the bodies: they haunt him despite his efforts to remove them from his mind.

When he recalls the train, he can only imagine the utter terror felt by the passengers, which manifests in a belief that life must be made as pleasurable as possible through hedonistic behaviours.

Nirmal pandey, Mohan Agashe, Rajit Kapoor, Smriti Mishra, Divya Dutta, Mangal Dhillon were the main cast of this movie.

[citation needed] A play based on this novel and having the same title "Train to Pakistan", however the first chapter "Dacoity" was staged at Lamakaan - an open cultural space in Hyderabad, India.

A Hindi play translated by Usha Mahajan, dramatized by Suman Kumar and directed by Amar Sah (Amar Nath Sah) was staged by Bela Theatre Karwaan on 29 December 2019 at Kamani Auditorium (Mandi House, Delhi),[3] 10 January 2020 and last production on 23 January 2020.

In late 2006, Roli was hoping to find an international distributor for the edition at the Frankfurt Book Fair (in October, 2006).