"H.S. Suhrawardy, the Chief Minister of Bengal and a major Muslim leaguer in Calcutta, was “appalingly negligent …perhaps…even deliberately provocative” in the early stages of killing."
— Direct Action Day

January 1, 1970

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1946West Bengal1940s in IndiaReligion and violence
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Dennis Dalton, commenting on the death toll was four thousand in the four days of the Great Calcutta Killing” p. 46