Direct Action Day
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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 fro
Dead and wounded after the Direct Action Day which developed into pitched battles as Muslim and Hindu mobs rioted across Calcutta in 1946, the year before independence
The crowd at the Muslim League rally at the Maidan.
More than 300 Oriya labourers of Kesoram Cotton Mills were massacred in the slums of Lichubagan, Metiabruz.
Corpses litter the narrow streets of Calcutta after four days of rioting in August 1946, as vultures feed on the remains.
Huseyn Suhrawardy
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Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy was a Pakistani politician and statesman who served as the fifth prime minister of Pakistan from 1956 to 1957 and before that as the prime minister of Bengal from 1946 to 194
Suhrawardy was called to the Bar of England and Wales at Gray's Inn
Suhrawardy, 1922
Suhrawardy and Mahatma Gandhi in Noakhali before the partition of India. A young Sheikh Mujib looks on
Suhrawardy and Jinnah at a rally in Calcutta, 1946