For decades historians in South Asia told the story of partition from a top-down, traditional political perspective featuring the great men of history. The first to recount the experiences of women, Dalits or untouchables, and refugees were not historians, but novelists and movie producers. While these were fictional accounts they often drew from the life experiences of their creators. For example, Khrushwant Singh’s, Train to Pakistan, written in 1956, tells the story of the village of Mano Majra plunged into the chaos of religious hatred and communal violence. The peace and serenity of Mano Majra is shattered when the first ghost train arrives in the summer of 1947 filled with the bodies of refugees massacred en route from Pakistan. It is the fear of being killed by Hindu and Sikh refugees from Pakistan that in turn causes the Muslim residents of Mano Majra to flee to Pakistan. The memory of partition will be the subject of the Au...