Question

Describe the step of mano majra

Answer 1

Grove Press' prize-winning novel from India, chosen from 250 manuscripts for publication, is the story of the onslaught of partition and its effect on the small Punjabi village of Mano Majra, where Sikh landowner and Muslim tenant have lived peaceably for centuries. When the trains bearing corpses start going through the railroad town -- Hindus slaughtered in Pakistan -- and when agitating refugees appear to coalesce with local gangsters and goad the Sikh villagers to sabotage the train carrying their erstwhile Muslim brethren as refugees to Pakistan, Hukum Chand, the ""Government"", decides to turn the mistaken jailing of two innocent parties on a murder charge to mass advantage. Jugga, known as a bad character to the police for raids and violence, is not really suspected of the murder of the moneylender because all know it was perpetrated by his ex-colleague Malli; Iqbal Singh, social worker and Sikh, arrived in town after the murder but is booked as a Moslem Leaguer. Released on the night of intended violence, Iqbal drinks himself out of sacrifice, while Jugga acts (for his Moslem girl or against Malli) and saves the refugees as he falls to the bullets of fellow Sikhs. There is the wry realism of approach here that seems a part of the culture -- as the author inspects the seamy sides of his good men as well as their assertions for good and presents a fascinating picture of the devious manipulation of group thought.