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Bombay — the naval mutiny
18–23 Feb 1946 — Ratings of the Royal Indian Navy strike and seize 78 ships over pay, food and insult; the tricolour and the crescent fly together from the mastheads. London reads the signal: the sword arm of the Raj is no longer sure.
This is one scene of Chapter 10 — The Year of the Knife in Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948.
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