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Site of memory · Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948

Bihar

Map showing Bihar — Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948
SITE OF MEMORY · INDIAN INDEPENDENCE & PARTITION, 1905–1948

Oct–Nov 1946 — Hindu crowds answer Noakhali with the massacre of Bihar’s Muslims — the death toll in the thousands, entire villages erased. Nehru threatens aerial bombing of the mobs; the spiral now feeds itself. Remember them.

This is one scene of Chapter 10 — The Year of the Knife in Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948.

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RIN mutiny Direct Action Noakhali

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