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Thursday | 04:15 PM | Colloquium Series „New Interventions in the History of Partition” Session 8: 09.02.2023 | First Sparks: The Calcutta Riots of 1946 - Janam Mukherjee (Ryerson University) Janam Mukherjee (Ryerson University) The Calcutta riots of August 1946 have received very little historical attention, despite being a seminal eruption of Hindu/Muslim violence at the end of colonial rule in South Asia. The violence that took place in Calcutta, beginning on August 16th, in many ways set the mold for the annihilating communal violence associated with the partition of the sub-continent in 1947. Indeed, the violence in Calcutta Address Südasien-Institut Voßstr. 2 69115 Heidelberg Organizer Südasien-Institut Homepage Organizer Contact URL https://history@sai.uni-heidelberg.de Registration URL https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUrc-mhrD8oGtKjND_L52YSrZlisL_tnL9c |