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The echoism created by the brutual actions of people belonging to all religion upon each other that ruined the harmonious state of the country in many ways is put bluntly in all its rawness. While the murder of Ram Lal the village's money lender by the dacoit marks the beginning of problems the real booster is the train that carries bodies of the dead Sikhs turns the village into a war ground between that of Muslim-Sikh chain events that propels various turns in the novel.The three characters come together during the testing time that serve as an acid test for their faith, integrity and tolerance for other community, culture and religion.
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Juggut Singh is in love with Nooran the local Mullah's daughter.Ram Lal is killed by local dacoit gang but Juggut is arrested as a suspect and put along, Iqbal.While Iqbal's thoughts and ideologies are influenced by his education he had abroad goes through his turns of slow transformation, while Juggust realises that he can never lead a normal life in his village with the kind of persona he has been carried.Both their mental thoughts weave a larger thoughts extending far exploring more human vantage of social and religious state of post Independent India. Hukum Chand, Juggut Singh and Iqbal are the prime characters of the novel.Hukum Singh is the village magistrate who has his share of shrewdness yet not being vile, Juggust is kind of a local gangster well built and often imprisoned for petty crimes, while Iqbal a communist social worker travels the rural area in the hope of bringing up an uprising. Like all good things are short lived, a train makes it entry to the village throwing away the peace and tranquility of the place forever. In spite of the partition rift all over the country, Mano Majra seems to be aloof from all of it.Muslims,Hindus and Sikhs still live in harmony.On the banks of Sutlej and the border village of Indo-Pak, it seems to be a strange exception to the events.