Volume-I, Issue-I, August, 2024
Novel Insights A Peer-Reviewed Quarterly Multidisciplinary Research Journal |
| Volume-I, Issue-I, August, 2024 |
Blood in Partition Trains: An Everlasting Emblem of Communal Violence and Massacre in Railway Sudipta sardar Email: rapurba26@gmail.com |
Received: 08.04.2024 | Accepted: 12.05.2024 | Published Online: 31.08.2024 |
Page No: 67-73 | DOI: 10.69655/novelinsight.vol.1.issue.01W.006 | |
Abstract | ||
The
Partition of India in 1947 carried a horrific account of railway massacre of
the immigrants. Thousands of people were slaughtered, raped, abducted or looted
inhumanly. Trains being the primary
medium of transport for the immigrants coming from hundreds of kilometers away
to either India or Pakistan had no option but to immigrate by the trains. Such
people faced the highest amount of communal violence while crossing the
borders. Trains carried the blood strains and dead bodies of hundreds of men,
women and even children. The traumatic experience of the journey was such that
many were afraid to take the trains later on and walked on foot to cross
borders. Because at that time the only image that came upon their mind was the
blood trains. It was so horrific in nature that many sufferers saw such trains
in a ghostly appearance. Such blood trains of the partition carried multiple
significance, they were an embodiment of the pangs of partition, a painful
history of migration, horrific nature of communal violence and an emblem for
the destruction of humanity as well as administrative management, be it the
government or the railway management.
Keywords: Blood, Death, Violence, Railway Management, Fear and Anguish, Partition. | ||