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Turning point · Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948
Calcutta — the capital
1905 — Second city of the British Empire, seat of the Viceroy, home of the Bengali intelligentsia the Raj educated and now distrusts. The capital will flee this city’s politics for Delhi in 1911.
This is one scene of Chapter 1 — The Raj at High Noon in Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948.
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