A tiny place with only three brick buildings-a gurdwara, where Meet Singh presides as its resident bhai a mosque led by the mullah and weaver Imam Baksh and the home of the Hindu moneylender, Lala Ram Lal-Mano Majra becomes the site of a notorious dacoity, which results in Ram Lal’s murder. Northern India is in turmoil, though the isolated village of Mano Majra remains, for now, at peace. In the summer of 1947, ten million Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs flee from their homes on each side of the new border between Pakistan and India.
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