On the Indian independence map as “Calcutta — the Great Killing”
16–19 Aug 1946 — The League’s Direct Action Day ignited four days of mutual slaughter in Calcutta. Some 4,000–10,000 people died in the city’s lanes; members of both communities killed and were killed. Partition had become a fact of the streets as well as a lawyer’s formula. Remember them.
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