Blood in Partition Trains: An Everlasting Emblem of Communal Violence and Massacre in Railway

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.