On this day, Kolkata was turned into a crematorium
On this day, Kolkata was turned into a crematorium
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Jinnah's 'Direct Action Plan' was also mislaid in the Noakhali district of East Bengal. There was a widespread massacre of Hindus in this Muslim-dominated district. In Calcutta, more than 6,000 people died within 72 hours. More than 20,000 were injured. More than 1 million were rendered homeless. It is also known as the Great Calcutta Killing.

This massacre started with the announcement of 'Direct Action Day' by the Muslim League. This 'direct action' was the campaign of the Muslim League, which was run to separate Pakistan from Hindustan as a country. It is said that these riots started only at the instigation of the League. Jinnah had also crossed the extent of madness in the hurry to create Pakistan. On August 15, 1946, he also issued a decree of 'direct action' against Hindus. The Hindu Mahasabha also started preparing for resistance by forming a 'Nigraha-Morcha'. All the circumstances of the civil war were also beginning to grow.

Mahatma Gandhi, who recognized the beats of India, understood the fierceness of the times to come. Gandhi, in his second meeting with the last Viceroy Mountbatten, made it clear, "The 'divide and rule' policy of the English system has created a situation when the only option left is to either maintain law and order, the British raj continues or India should bathe with blood."

For 15 days, the rest of the world could not even get the news of this massacre. It will be called the irony of destiny that the Muslims who committed this barbaric act, in fact, those poor, uneducated, seduced Muslims of Noakhali converted Hindus of barely fifty years ago. The Noakhali massacre shocked the whole of India. This was a huge blow to Gandhi's efforts for Hindu-Muslim unity. The real-time of examination had come for Bapu. He immediately decided to move from Delhi to Noakhali. Fasted there and then this massacre could stop.

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