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Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) was the day the All-India Muslim League decided to take a "direct action" using general strikes and economic shut down to demand a separate Muslim homeland after the British exit from India. Also known as the 1946 Calcutta Riots, it soon became a day of communal violence in Calcutta. [5]
[1] [2] In India, he is seen as a controversial figure; directly responsible for the 1946 Calcutta Killings, [3] [4] [5] for which he is often referred as the "Butcher of Bengal" in West Bengal. [6] He served as the Prime Minister of Pakistan from 1956 to 1957 and before that as the Prime Minister of Bengal from 1946 to 1947 in British India.
In 1946, Suhrawardy led the Bengal Provincial Muslim League to win the general elections and thus became the third and last Prime Minister of Bengal. He proposed a United Bengal, also known as the Free State of Bengal. [7] Huseyn is however criticized and held responsible for the Great Calcutta Killings.
During the British Raj, India experienced a large number of major famines, including the Great Famine of 1876–1878, in which 6.1 million to 10.39 million Indians perished [200] and the Indian famine of 1899–1900, in which 1.25 to 10 million Indians perished.
1946 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1946th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 946th year of the 2nd millennium, the 46th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1940s decade.
The target Howrah Bridge wasn't damaged but other parts of the city faced damages. [6] Calcutta had good air defence systems which forced the Japanese pilots to fly high to evade the air defence and they raised Calcutta only during the night. [2] This bombing affected the industrial area and caused the displacement of 350,000 people. [7]
Three million died in the 1943 Bengal famine - one man is collecting the remaining survivors' tales.
Sunil Janah (17 April 1918 — 21 June 2012) [1] [2] was an Indian-American [3] photojournalist and documentary photographer who worked in India in the 1940s. Janah documented India's independence movement, its peasant and labour movements, famines and riots, rural and tribal life, as well as the years of rapid urbanization and industrialization.