"A small ten-year-old child in one of Calcutta's main streets two/thirds beaten to death sitting upright after the mobs had passed him by on August 18th"-- a news bureau photo of the communal Calcutta Riots of 1946; *the caption*

Source: ebay, Feb. 2009



More victims of the Calcutta riots of 1946, in a news bureau photo; *the original caption*

Source: ebay, Aug. 2010



Communal trouble also erupts in Ahmedabad, between Muslims and Jains; a news bureau photo, and *the original caption*

Source: ebay, Aug. 2010
 

The dead, after the communal riots in Delhi during Partition; a photograph by Margaret Bourke-White

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/south_asia_india0s_partition/html/7.stm
(downloaded Nov. 2006)

Clearing the bodies of riot victims from a city street; a photo by Bourke-White

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/south_asia_india0s_partition/html/5.stm
(downloaded Nov. 2006)

Mass cremation of the dead, as hastily as possible (Bourke-White)

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/06/south_asia_india0s_partition/html/9.stm
(downloaded Nov. 2006)




Lord Mountbatten visits Punjabi riot scenes, in a news photo, 1947

Source: ebay, May 2010

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