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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.
The partition was outlined in the Indian Independence Act 1947. [ 3 ] The change of political borders notably included the division of two provinces of British India, [ a ] Bengal and Punjab. [ 4 ] The majority Muslim districts in these provinces were awarded to Pakistan and the majority non-Muslim to India.
ISBN 978-1-86189-874-6. Yet at the close of colonialism, when British India was in the process of partition, railway carriages provided little protection from physical violence and political turmoil. In October 1947, amid large-scale migration between Hindu and Muslim regions, 3,000 passengers were killed on a Muslim refugee train in Amritsar.
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 ...
Bihar, British India. Communal riots occurred in Bihar, India from 24 October to 11 November 1946, in which Hindu mobs targeted Muslim families. The riots were triggered by the Great Calcutta Killings, as well as the Noakhali riots earlier that year. Mahatma Gandhi declared that he would fast unto death if the riots did not stop.
There is a tendency among some historians to view the Muslim conquests and Muslim empires as a prolonged period of violence against Hindu culture, with Will Durant calling the Muslim conquest of India "probably the bloodiest story in history." [23] Following his quest for Jihad against the infidels of India, Mahmud of Ghazni not only ruined the Somnath temple and plundered its treasures but ...
The 1947 Rawalpindi massacres (also 1947 Rawalpindi riots) refer to widespread violence, massacres, and rapes of Hindus and Sikhs by Muslim mobs in the Rawalpindi Division of the Punjab Province of British India in March 1947. The violence preceded the partition of India and was instigated and perpetrated by the Muslim League National Guards ...
Conflict began when Pashtun tribesmen and Tanoli from Pakistan invaded the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, prompting the armies of India and Pakistan to get involved shortly afterwards. The Indo-Pakistani war of 1947–1948, also known as the first Kashmir war, [25] was a war fought between India and Pakistan over the princely state of ...