What the records say
- When
- 1948
- Kind
- Murder
- Killed
- 35
- Coordinates
- 22.79° N, 85.83° E
- Description
- 1948 Indian massacre
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Placed at the town its title names, Kharsawan.
Kharsawan massacre
1948 Indian massacre
The Kharsawan massacre was a massacre of Adivasis by the Orissa Military Police in erstwhile Kharsawan State in the newly independent Dominion of India, in what is now Jharkhand, India.
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