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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]
He is also remembered for his performance as the Minister for Civil Supply during the Bengal famine of 1943. [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]
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.
The Bengal famine of 1943 was a famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II.An estimated 800,000–3.8 million people died, [A] in the Bengal region (present-day Bangladesh and West Bengal), from starvation, malaria and other diseases aggravated by malnutrition, population displacement, unsanitary conditions, poor ...
During the British Raj, India experienced some of the worst famines ever recorded, including the Great Famine of 1876–1878, in which 6.1 million to 10.39 million Indians perished [208] and the Indian famine of 1899–1900, in which 1.25 to 10 million Indians perished. [209]
The timeline of major famines in India during British rule covers major famines on the Indian subcontinent from 1765 to 1947. The famines included here occurred both in the princely states (regions administered by Indian rulers), British India (regions administered either by the British East India Company from 1765 to 1857; or by the British Crown, in the British Raj, from 1858 to 1947) and ...
The film was based on the Bengal famine of 1943, which killed millions of Bengali people, and was one of the first films in Indian cinema's social-realist movement. [1] In 1949, Dharti Ke Lal also became the first Indian film to receive widespread distribution in the Soviet Union (USSR), [ 2 ] which led to the country becoming a major overseas ...
The majority of East Bengali refugees settled in the city of Kolkata (Calcutta) and various other towns and rural areas of West Bengal, but a significant number also moved to the Barak Valley of Assam and the princely state of Tripura which eventually joined India in 1949.