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Mind Map by jacksearle, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by jacksearle
almost 11 years ago
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Were Jinnah and the ML to blame for the Calcutta Killings?
- Yes
- Suhrawardy alleged to have given
speech encouraging violence
- Jinnah was the one who called for
Direct Action Day - the spark
- Initial provocation caused by muslims
armed with lathis and missiles
- After speech, c100,000 dispersed across
city - attacked isolated groups of Hindus
- ML too disorganised to have direct control over followers
- Jinnah was too detached to understand
how Calcutta would react
- Language and publicity for DAD was very
religious - likely to provoke extremists into action
- Suhrawardy alleged to have given
speech encouraging violence
- No
- In other provinces DAD was a peaceful event
- Criminal Underworld hijacked protest - ML didn't see it coming - not their fault
- No transcript of Suhrawardy's speech was made - could've
been a false interpretation
- Burrows allowed DAD to be public holiday - less
police around - allowed rioting to escalate
- Jinnah requested that his people act peacefully
- No evidence that Jinnah foresaw what would happen
- Hindus attacked processions, threw stones/bricks
- Sikhs seen driving in jeeps looking for victims
- 75% of Victims were Muslim
- Burrows slow and inexperienced- didn't send troops in til it was too late
- In other provinces DAD was a peaceful event
- Events/Impact
- No British/European Casualties
- Seen as final nail in the coffin in any chance of a united
India or cooperation between ML and Congress
- 6000 Dead,
16000 injured,
100000 homeless
- Majority of dead were poor and
defenceless from both communities
- Jinnahs rep severely damaged
- seen as having organised the riot
- or at very least being unable to control followers
- or at very least being unable to control followers
- seen as having organised the riot
- No British/European Casualties
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