August 1946 Dhaka (East Bengal, then East Pakistan, and now Bangladesh):
Rabindranath Ghosh, a resident of Dhaka, related these incidents to the author in person: “About five six days after the Great Calcutta killing of August 16, 1946, something odd happened. During this time the atmosphere was tense, people were kept indoors, as there was arson in Hindu homes… One morning we were astounded to find that near the rail tracks near Oari and Tikatuli, 8/10 naked male dead bodies were lying. The corpses were swollen and were already rotting. It was apparent that these were Hindu dead bodies, since there was no circumcision done… The message was clear; they were specifically left in the Hindu area as a warning message. The process continued for several nights. I took a picture of the corpses and we cremated them in the nearby cremation ground. In the meantime, our Muslim school friends were telling us that if Hindu (or Congress) do not accept the demand for Pakistan, this will happen to all of us” (“Je Chilo Amar Desh, Tathagata Roy, Translated from Bengali by Rinita Mazumdar, Mitra & Ghosh, 2022, p, 67).
Testimony of A Hindu Gentleman, Rabindranath Ghosh
