Partition of Bengal (1947)
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The Partition of Bengal in 1947, also known as the Second Partition of Bengal, part of the Partition of India, divided the British Indian Bengal Province along the Radcliffe Line between the Dominion
Religious distribution of Bengal - 1941 Census of India, the basis for the partition (by CIA:1981)
Louis Mountbatten discusses the partition plan with Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Entrance to the Legislative Assembly in Kolkata (Calcutta)
H. S. Suhrawardy, the last Prime Minister of Bengal, urged a separate independent status for the whole province
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.