Author: Calcutta Disturbances Commission of Enquiry
Title: Report of Proceedings ..,. Minutes of Evidence. Volume III
Description: Calcutta, Government Printing, [1948?]. orig.boards. 33x20cm, 216 pp. Spine torn and wormed. Cover soiled.. Rubbed. Cover heavily wormed. Pinholing to margins. Just Good ¶ Publisher's colophon at bottom of last page reads: "WBGP - 47/8 - 18X(III) - 200" [ie: published in an edition of 200 copies]. Vol. 3 [of 11] of the verbatim transcript of official West Bengal state government hearings into the "Great Calcutta Riot" - communal Hindu-Muslim riots of 16 - 20 August 1946 in which 4000 were killed. Contains testimony at hearings held on 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28 & 29 November 1946. Contains testimony of Lieutenant- General Francis Robert Roy Bucher, Officiating General Officer, Commanding in Chief, Eastern Command; Donald Ross Hardwick, Commissioner of Police ( continued from Volume II); Ronald Leslie Walker, Officiating Chief Secretary to the Government of Bengal ["The Calcutta Riots of 1946, also known as the “ Great Calcutta Killing,” were four days of massive Hindu- Muslim riots in the capital of Bengal, India, resulting in 5,000 to 1 0,000dead, and some 15,000 wounded, between August 16 and 19, 1946. These riots are probably the most notorious single massacre of the 1946-47 period, during which large-scale violence occurred in many parts of India. However, the “ Great Calcutta Killing” stands out somewhat in the history of Calcutta, given that it was by far the most deadly episode in the recent history of the city..." - Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence].

Keywords: Indian Political History, Great Calcutta Riot, Communal Riots, Hindu-Muslim, Religious Conflict, Colonial History, West Bengal, India South Asia, Politics, Partition