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	Against a backdrop of communal tension, the protest triggered massive riots in Calcutta.<ref name="Das">		Against a backdrop of communal tension, the protest triggered massive riots in Calcutta.<ref name="Das">
	{{cite journal \|last=Das \|first=Suranjan \|date=May 2000 \|title=The 1992 Calcutta Riot in Historical Continuum: A Relapse into 'Communal Fury'? \|journal=Modern Asian Studies\|volume=34 \|issue=2 \|pages=281–306 \|doi=10.1017/S0026749X0000336X \|jstor=313064 \|s2cid=144646764 }}</ref><ref name="ASB_BP_Cal">{{cite book \|last=Das \|first=Suranjan\|year=2012\|chapter=Calcutta Riot, 1946\|chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Calcutta_Riot,_1946\|editor1-last=Islam \|editor1-first=Sirajul \|editor1-link=Sirajul Islam\|editor2-last=Jamal \|editor2-first=Ahmed A.\|title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh\|edition=Second\|publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref> More than 4,000 people died and 100,000 residents were left homeless in Calcutta within 72 hours.<ref name="Burrows"/><ref name="Sarkar2018p8">{{cite book \|last1=Sarkar \|first1=Tanika \|last2=Bandyopadhyay \|first2=Sekhar \|year=2018 \|title=Calcutta: The Stormy Decades \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REcrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA8 \|publisher=Taylor & Francis \|page=8 \|isbn=978-1-351-58172-1}}</ref> The violence sparked off further religious riots in the surrounding regions of [[Noakhali riots\|Noakhali]], [[1946 Bihar riots\|Bihar]], [[United Provinces (1937-1950)\|United Provinces]] (modern day [[Uttar Pradesh]]), [[Punjab Province (British India)\|Punjab]] (including [[~~1947~~ Rawalpindi ~~massacres~~\|massacres in Rawalpindi]]) and the [[North Western Frontier Province]].<ref>{{citation \|last1=Talbot \|first1=Ian \|last2=Singh \|first2=Gurharpal \|title=The Partition of India \|publisher=Cambridge University Press \|isbn=978-0-521-67256-6 \|year=2009 \|url=https://www.cambridge.org/in/academic/subjects/history/twentieth-century-regional-history/partition-india?format=PB&isbn=9780521672566\|page=67\|quote=(Signs of 'ethnic cleansing') were also present in the wave of violence that rippled out from Calcutta to Bihar, where there were high Muslim casualty figures, and to Noakhali deep in the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta of Bengal. Concerning the Noakhali riots, one British officer spoke of a 'determined and organized' Muslim effort to drive out all the Hindus, who accounted for around a fifth of the total population. Similarly, the Punjab counterparts to this transition of violence were the Rawalpindi massacres of March 1947. The level of death and destruction in such West Punjab villages as Thoa Khalsa was such that communities couldn't live together in its wake.\|ref=none}}</ref> The events sowed the seeds for the eventual [[Partition of India]].		{{cite journal \|last=Das \|first=Suranjan \|date=May 2000 \|title=The 1992 Calcutta Riot in Historical Continuum: A Relapse into 'Communal Fury'? \|journal=Modern Asian Studies\|volume=34 \|issue=2 \|pages=281–306 \|doi=10.1017/S0026749X0000336X \|jstor=313064 \|s2cid=144646764 }}</ref><ref name="ASB_BP_Cal">{{cite book \|last=Das \|first=Suranjan\|year=2012\|chapter=Calcutta Riot, 1946\|chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Calcutta_Riot,_1946\|editor1-last=Islam \|editor1-first=Sirajul \|editor1-link=Sirajul Islam\|editor2-last=Jamal \|editor2-first=Ahmed A.\|title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh\|edition=Second\|publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref> More than 4,000 people died and 100,000 residents were left homeless in Calcutta within 72 hours.<ref name="Burrows"/><ref name="Sarkar2018p8">{{cite book \|last1=Sarkar \|first1=Tanika \|last2=Bandyopadhyay \|first2=Sekhar \|year=2018 \|title=Calcutta: The Stormy Decades \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=REcrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA8 \|publisher=Taylor & Francis \|page=8 \|isbn=978-1-351-58172-1}}</ref> The violence sparked off further religious riots in the surrounding regions of [[Noakhali riots\|Noakhali]], [[1946 Bihar riots\|Bihar]], [[United Provinces (1937-1950)\|United Provinces]] (modern day [[Uttar Pradesh]]), [[Punjab Province (British India)\|Punjab]] (including [[Rawalpindi Massacres\|massacres in Rawalpindi]]) and the [[North Western Frontier Province]].<ref>{{citation \|last1=Talbot \|first1=Ian \|last2=Singh \|first2=Gurharpal \|title=The Partition of India \|publisher=Cambridge University Press \|isbn=978-0-521-67256-6 \|year=2009 \|url=https://www.cambridge.org/in/academic/subjects/history/twentieth-century-regional-history/partition-india?format=PB&isbn=9780521672566\|page=67\|quote=(Signs of 'ethnic cleansing') were also present in the wave of violence that rippled out from Calcutta to Bihar, where there were high Muslim casualty figures, and to Noakhali deep in the Ganges-Brahmaputra delta of Bengal. Concerning the Noakhali riots, one British officer spoke of a 'determined and organized' Muslim effort to drive out all the Hindus, who accounted for around a fifth of the total population. Similarly, the Punjab counterparts to this transition of violence were the Rawalpindi massacres of March 1947. The level of death and destruction in such West Punjab villages as Thoa Khalsa was such that communities couldn't live together in its wake.\|ref=none}}</ref> The events sowed the seeds for the eventual [[Partition of India]].

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	[[Category:Attacks on buildings and structures in the 1940s]]		[[Category:Attacks on buildings and structures in the 1940s]]
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	[[Category:Political terminology in Pakistan]]		[[Category:Political terminology in Pakistan]]
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