On This Day, 75 Years on

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Here is an insightful article written by one of our own professor Dr. Suchirta Samanta for the Roanoke Times.

PFA the article.

Dear Rajesh,

You might have seen today's NYT article on Partition violence largely focused on Pakistan, but not to the east.

Again, in case you want to share my op-ed published in the Roanoke Times, 15th August, 2015, on an insurrection led by Bengali school teachers, with high school students, college women and others, called the Chittagong Bomb Plot. Inspired by Irish revolutionaries (Easter Rebellion, 1916), this group disagreed with Gandhi's non-violent approach. The leaders, like the Irish, were hanged by the British.

Not much is known about these events by the general public--but people died fighting for Indian independence. The events impacted my family, as the conclusion notes. My mother, a doctor, working in the ER in a Kolkata hospital at the time, would recall the horrific injuries inflicted on each other by Hindus and Muslims.

Best, Suchitradi

Sincerely,

ISA Officers

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