“The Bengal Files Review: Uncomfortable, Imperfect, Yet Unavoidable”, Swarajyamag, September 11, 2025:
“When Bharat remembers Partition, it usually remembers Punjab. The haunting images are almost always the same: blood-soaked trains, endless caravans of refugees, villages engulfed in flames. In recent years, Kashmir too has begun to reclaim its place in the nation’s conscience, with the stories of exodus and targeted killings finally breaking through popular silence.
Bengal, however, has remained a blind spot. The narrative of its suffering has been buried under layers of denial, selective historiography and a wilful forgetting that has distorted the memory of 1946 and 1947.
Yet, Bengal was the site of horrors that rivalled anything seen in Punjab. The Great Calcutta Killings of 1946, planned and executed under the stewardship of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and his Muslim League machinery, were not spontaneous riots but systematic pogroms. Hindus were butchered in their homes, women violated on the streets and entire neighbourhoods reduced to rubble…….”
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