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The Collected Novels

Khushwant Singh
Chapters (53)
  1. Cover
  2. Khushwant Singh
  3. COLLECTED NOVELS
  4. Books by the Same Author
  5. Introduction
  6. Train to Pakistan
  7. Dedication
  8. Dacoity
  9. Kalyug
  10. Mano Majra
  11. Karma
  12. I Shall Not Hear The Nightingale
  13. Dedication
  14. Please Read This Note Before Reading the Novel
  15. Characters in the Story
  16. Chapter I
  17. Chapter II
  18. Chapter III
  19. Chapter IV
  20. Chapter V
  21. Chapter VI
  22. Chapter VII
  23. Chapter VIII
  24. Chapter IX
  25. Chapter X
  26. Chapter XI
  27. Chapter XII
  28. Chapter XIII
  29. Delhi
  30. Dedication
  31. Delhi
  32. Lady J.H.T.
  33. Bhagmati
  34. Musaddi Lal
  35. Bhagmati
  36. The Timurid
  37. Bhagmati
  38. The Untouchables
  39. Bhagmati
  40. Aurangzeb Alamgir: Emperor of Hindustan
  41. Bhagmati
  42. Nadir Shah
  43. Bhagmati
  44. Meer Taqi Meer
  45. Bhagmati
  46. 1857
  47. Bhagmati
  48. The Builders
  49. Bhagmati
  50. The Dispossessed
  51. Bhagmati
  52. A Note from the Author
  53. Footnotes

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Khushwant Singh

The Collected Novels

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COLLECTED NOVELS

Khushwant Singh was born in 1915 in Hadali, Punjab. He was educated at Government College, Lahore and at King’s College and the Inner Temple in London. He practised at the Lahore High Court for several years before joining the Indian Ministry of External Affairs in 1947. He was sent on diplomatic postings to Canada and London and later went to Paris with UNESCO.

He began a distinguished career as a journalist with All India Radio in 1951. Since then he has been founder-editor of Yojna (1951-53), editor of the Illustrated Weekly of India (1969-79), editor of the National Herald (1978-79), and the editor of the Hindustan Times (1980-83). Today he is India’s best-known columnist and journalist.

Khushwant Singh has also had an extremely successful career as a writer. Among the works published are a classic two-volume history of the Sikhs, several novels—including Train to Pakistan, which won the Grove Press Award for the best work of fiction in 1954, I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale and Delhi—and a number of translated works and non-fiction books on Delhi, nature and current affairs. His latest novel, The Company of Women, has been published by Penguin Books.

Khushwant Singh was a Member of Parliament from 1980 to 1986. Among other honours he was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974 by the President of India (he returned the decoration in 1984 in protest against the Union Government’s siege of the Golden Temple, Amritsar).

Books by the Same Author

Books by the same author

Fiction

Mark of Vishnu

Train to Pakistan

I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale

Many Moods and Many Faces

Non-Fiction

History of the Sikhs: Two Volumes

Ranjit Singh: Maharaja of the Punjab

Fall of the Sikh Kingdom

Indira Gandhi Returns

Nature Watch

Translations

Umrao Jan Ada—Courtesan of Lucknow

The Skeleton

Land of the Five Rivers

Iqbal’s Dialogue with Allah

Essays

Khushwant Singh’s India

Editor’s Page

Introduction