"Reference has already been made to the forcible closing of Hindu shops as the immediate exciting cause of the disturbances. All over Calcutta Muslim crowds demanded the closure of non- Muslim shops. If the slightest resistance was offered the shop was looted and burnt. Very soon the crowds began to break open closed shops and loot them. It is significant that many Muslim shops had been marked in chalk with âMussalman shop âPakistanâ to save them from the attentions of the mob and this circumstance was mentioned as proving a previous plan to loot all non-Muslim shops."
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Khosla G. D. (1989). Stern reckoning : a survey of the events leading up to and following the partition of india. Oxford University Press. 61
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Direct Action Day
Direct Action Day (16 August 1946), also known as the Great Calcutta Killings, was a day of nationwide communal riots by the Indian Muslim community announced by Muhammad Ali Jinnah. And orchestrated by âThe Butcher of Bengal H.S.Suhravardy. It led to large-scale violence by Muslims on Hindus? He Instigated the crazed Muslim Men to loot, maim, murder, and gang rape women and girls until they die and then the hung their bodies on poles as trophies. Hindus in the city of Calcutta (now known as Kol
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