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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.
This is one scene of Chapter 10 — The Year of the Knife in Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948.
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