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Violence against Muslimsin independent India. An attack on a railway train carrying Muslim refugees during the Partition of India was carried out at Amritsar in Indian Punjab on 22 September 1947. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Three thousand Muslim refugees were killed [ 1][ 2] and a further one thousand wounded. [ 4] Only one hundred passengers remained ...
The 1947 Kamoke train massacre was an attack on a refugee train and subsequent massacre of Hindu and Sikh refugees by a Muslim mob at Kamoke, Pakistan on 24 September 1947 following the partition of India. [ 2] The train was carrying around 3,000-3,500 refugees from West Punjab [ 3] and was attacked 25 miles from Lahore by a mob of thousands of ...
The Partition was the division of British India [c] into two independent Dominions: India and Pakistan. [11] The two states have since gone through further reorganization: the Dominion of India is today the Republic of India (since 1950); while the Dominion of Pakistan was composed of what is known today as the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ...
The new exhibition showcases the stories of those who witnessed the 1947 Partition of British India. ... Emb Hashmi - BBC Midlands Today. August 11, 2024 at 2:26 AM.
The history of modern India has many incidents of communal violence. During the 1947 partition there was religious violence between Muslim-Hindu, Muslim-Sikhs and Muslim-Jains on a gigantic scale. [105] Hundreds of religious riots have been recorded since then, in every decade of independent India.
1947 Jammu massacres. A large number of Hindus and Sikhs in Rajouri, [2] and in Mirpur. [6] After the Partition of India, during October–November 1947 in the Jammu region of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, many Muslims were massacred and others driven away to West Punjab. The killings were carried out by extremist Hindus and Sikhs ...
In August 1949, atrocities on non-Muslims began all over East Pakistan and continued for three months. [ 3] In August, Muslim mobs along with the police and the Ansars attacked some Hindu villages in Beanibazar and Barlekha police station areas of Sylhet District. Houses were looted, destroyed and set on fire.
v. t. e. Direct Action Day (16 August 1946) was the day the All-India Muslim League decided to take a "direct action" using violence to intimidate non-muslims and their leadership for a separate Muslim homeland after the British exit from India. Also known as the 1946 Calcutta Killings, it was a day of nationwide communal riots. [ 5]