"Today is Direct Action Day Today Muslims of India dedicate their lives and all they possess to the cause of freedom Today let every Muslim swear in the name of Allah to resist aggression Direct action is now their only course Because they offered peace but peace was spurned They honoured their word but they were betrayed They claimed Liberty but were offered Thraldom Now Might alone can secure their Right"
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August 16, 1946, Muslim League advertisements in major newspapers,Dawn and Eastern Times, in Punjab and Bengal. in: Khan, Yasmin. The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan, New Edition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. ———. The Raj at War: A People’s History of India’s Second World War. London: Bodley Head, 2015.
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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 ‘The 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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