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International Journal of Arts, Humanities And Social Studies
2021, Volume 3, Issue 2
Research Article
Rise of Class Distinction: An Analysis of Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan
Abstract

India has for a long period before the British rule been a closed society where the people were discriminated on the bases of caste. The English Language education in India provided the natives with a way to the western literature and the western culture which created a class of educated Indians. Unfortunately, the educated Indians were mostly upper caste people who wanted to suppress the lower caste people and eventually during partition when the administration was handed over to the educated Indians they became masters over the uneducated lower caste people. Most of the partition novels has recorded the communal violence that happened during Partition but the rise of class distinction in India was seen predominantly in Khushwant Singh‟s Train to Pakistan. Disclosure analysis of the novel is made for understanding the way of living of both educated and uneducated Indians, the attention given to the educated Indians with respect to that of the uneducated Indians, the division of opinion among the educated Indians and finally the rise of new discrimination based on class from the caste system through the characters Hukum Chand, Iqbal Singh and the villagers. Textual analysis helped in connecting the partition history learnt through historical method with the actual text. The Paper states that the country once divided into different caste has now after partition been divided on the bases of the educational status as educated and uneducated which determined the class of the people. The rise of class distinction in India gave its citizens of lower caste a chance to work hard and attain a dignified position in the society.

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