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Bihar riots (1946)

On the Indian independence map as “Bihar”

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.

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Chapter
Cabinet Mission and Direct Action Day (chapter 12 of Indian independence)
Atlas
Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964
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Map showing Bihar riots (1946), site of memory in Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964
SITE OF MEMORY · INDIAN INDEPENDENCE & PARTITION, 1857–1964

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