Direct Action Day

When

16 Aug 1946

Kind

Riot

Deaths

4,000

Coordinates

22.58° N, 88.36° E

Description

day of widespread communal rioting between Muslims and Hindus in the city of Calcutta

1946 sectarian violence in British India

Direct Action Day 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 and Great Calcutta Killings, it soon became a day of communal violence in Calcutta.

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