Indian independence · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Direct Action Day (1946)
On the Indian independence map as “Calcutta — the Great Killing”
16–19 Aug 1946 — The League’s Direct Action Day ignites four days of mutual slaughter: some 4,000–10,000 dead in the city’s lanes, both communities killers and killed. Partition stops being a lawyer’s formula and becomes a fact of the streets. Remember them.
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- Cabinet Mission and Direct Action Day (chapter 12 of Indian independence)
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- Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964
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