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Turning point · Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948
Calcutta — Swadeshi
16 Oct 1905 — The day partition takes effect, Bengal answers with mourning and boycott: foreign cloth burned, British salt and sugar refused, national schools founded. Rabindranath Tagore leads crowds tying rakhi threads — Hindu and Muslim wrists bound in protest.
This is one scene of Chapter 2 — Bengal Cut in Two in Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948.
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