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The first DPs brought to the US under the Act arrived in New York City on October 30, 1948, crossing from Bremerhaven, Germany on the Army transport ship General Black. The ship carried 813 displaced persons from eleven nations, including 388 Poles, 168 Lithuanians, 53 Czechoslovaks, 32 Latvians, 17 Ukrainians and 6 Hungarians.
Many Hindus and Sikhs lived in the west, and many Muslims lived in the east, and the fears of all such minorities were so great that the partition saw many people displaced and much inter-communal violence. Some have described the violence in Punjab as a retributive genocide. [136]
Representation of the People Act: 1950: 43 Air Force Act: 1950: 45 Army Act: 1950: 46 Contingency Fund of India Act: 1950: 49 Road Transport Corporations Act: 1950: 64 Khaddar (Protection of Name) Act: 1950: 78 Jallianwala Bagh National Memorial Act: 1951: 25 Visva-Bharati Act: 1951: 29 President's Emoluments and Pension Act: 1951: 30 Finance ...
Partition of British India occurred in 1947 along with the formation of two dominions called Pakistan and India. [2] Partition resulted in mass violence and people were moving across borders in all means. Thus to support the displaced people from Pakistan Jawaharlal Nehru created a fund collected from the public in January 1948. [1]
India holds that the Instrument of Accession of the State of Jammu and Kashmir to the Union of India, signed by Maharaja Hari Singh (erstwhile ruler of the State) on 25 October 1947 [371] [372] and executed on 27 October 1947 [372] between the ruler of Kashmir and the Governor General of India was a legal act and completely valid in terms of ...
Numerous families were displaced and many lost their lives in the partition. [4] It aims to remind Indians the need to remove social divisions, disharmony and to further strengthen the spirit of oneness, social harmony and human empowerment. [5] The partition had left 10 to 20 million people displaced and left 200,000 to 2 million dead.
The Congress-led Government of India decided to go ahead with the 1983 Assembly elections without revising the electoral roll, [60] which the movement leaders decided to boycott with widespread support from the local people. [61] The Miya people decided to support the Congress party instead in the hope that it will end the movement. [62]
Indian government estimates suggest around 2.6 million migrants leaving East Bengal for India and 0.7 million migrants coming to East Pakistan from India. [ 4 ] As per the Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the Government of West Bengal, the census figures show the number of refugees from East Pakistan in 1971 was nearly 6 million ...