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The article makes several deliberate factual errors regarding the Muslim League which I have tried to correct and the general tone of the article goes against historical facts... It is sadly based on one sided Indian propaganda and nothing else. Despite my corrections, the article is so skewed that it must have been funded by some extremist Hindu groups in India.

Please see below...

Biased and onesided article

This is an absolute travesty of history... which quotes one side of the story. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.163.67.241 (talk • contribs) of 26.03.07

You are most welcome to up-date with proper citations and references. In case, you are not registered, it is a good idea to take a user name. It will be more helpful for future. --Bhadani 15:02, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Please feel free to use. I am new to Misplaced Pages .. So I don't know how to contribute:

"Last weekend has seen dreadful riots in Calcutta. The estimates of casualties is 3000 dead and 17000 injured. The Bengal Congress are convinced that all the trouble was deliberately engineered by the Muslim League Ministry, but no satisfactory evidence to that effect has reached me yet. It is said that the decision to have a public holiday on 16th August was the cause of trouble, but I think this is very far-fetched. There was a public holiday in Sind and there was no trouble there. At any rate, whatever the causes of the outbreak, when it started, the Hindus and Sikhs were every bit as fierce as Muslims. The present estimate is that appreciably more Muslims were killed than the Hindus"

Lord Wavell to Pethick Lawrence

The editorial of Blitz, the Congress Mouthpiece... writes::

Meanwhile the Congress Mouthpiece "Blitz" wrote this about the direct action day:

The worst enemies of the Muslim League cannot help envying the leadership of Mr Jinnah. Last week's cataclysmic transformation of the League from the reactionary racket of the Muslim Nawabs, Noons, and Knights into a revolutionary mass organisation dedicated, by word if not be deed, to an anti-Imperialist struggle, compels us to express the sneaking national wish that a diplomat and strategist of Jinnah's proven calibre were at the held of the Indian National Congress. There is no denying the fact that by his latest master-stroke of diplomacy Jinnah has outbid, outwitted and outmaneuvered the British and Congress alike and confounded the common national indictment that the Muslim League is a parasite of British Imperialism

Now why would a Congress Newspaper praise Jinnah if Direct Action Day was all that you are making it out to be...

The fact is that Calcutta was an exception... a well thought out plan by the Congress which sabotaged the League's programme for temporary political gain....

http://www.free-definition.com/Direct-action.html

Direct Action simply means civil disobedience... as Dr. King put it:

"Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and foster such a tension that a community which has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored."

Now consider H V Hodson's description of the League Programme:

"The working committee followed up by calling on Muslims through out India to observe 16th August as direct action day. On that Day meeting would be held all over the country to explain League's resolution. These meetings and processions passed of- as was manifestly the Central league leaders' intention- without more than commonplace and limited disturbance with one vast and tragic exception... what happened was more than anyone could have foreseen."

(Page 166 'The Great Divide')

Explaining Direct Action Jinnah made it clear that the direct Action will not be in any form but in peaceful form...

"16th August is not for the purpose of resorting to Direct Action in any form or shape, Therefore I enjoin upon the Muslims to carry our the instructions and abide by them strictly and conduct themselves peacefuly and in a disciplined manner."

Press Release Jinnah 14th August 1946

Statement from Jinnah on the 17 August 1946, next day after the Calcutta Killings:

“I condemn the violence and sympathise with the victims. It was contrary to what the working Committee (of ML) said that some people have acted against the directives (sic)”.

Noakhali

Thousands of Hindus were killed and their womenfolk abducted in Noakhali Districtin 1946-1947.Can someone write an article for[REDACTED] on that carnage .--Shyamsunder 09:06, 01 October 2006 (UTC)

Did as much as I could so far. More information sources needed.Hkelkar 11:27, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

More information Needed

I expanded with some stuff I dug up from the library & online. I need more sources. Plus, also need to expand the section on riots etc in Punjab, Bihar and NWFP.Plz help.Hkelkar 11:27, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

REVERTED Ktrjan's edits

They were not edits... simply an attempt to take out sourced information. The article is WP:POV as is .... but by taking out the balance it was an attempt to distort history. I will continue to monitor this and Ktrjan does this again, I will report him to the moderators. 202.163.67.241 06:37, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Your edits were rent with original research, unverified claims and misrepresentations. Please stop this. Kjartan8 06:38, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Kjartan, my quotes were directly out of published works like Stanley Wolpert's Jinnah of Pakistan, Gandhi's Passion and Mansergh's edited Transfer of Power Papers. There ARE no misrepresentations in what I have quoted... but most of the article consists of propaganda sources quoted by yourself. Have the decency to accept the facts and STOP VANDALIZING. Teabing-Leigh 07:16, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, Wolpert did not say "This quote however does not find favor with Jinnah's biographers". That is Original research and you have been reported for violating[REDACTED] regulations. Kjartan8 07:18, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Stanley Wolpert quotes the speech in his book "Jinnah of Pakistan" and somehow the biographer misses this pertinent invented quote. User:Teabing-Leigh|Teabing-Leigh]] 07:23, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

It's still Original research

More false statements exposed: 1.Diagram caption put by you not verified by source.(Dead and wounded after the 'Direct Action Day' which developed into pitched battles as Hindu mobs were let loose on the Muslims,Calcutta in 1946, the year before independence)

2.Undue weight (WP:UNDUE) given to one ref entered twice (Wavell to Pethick Lawrence, August 21, 1946, Mansergh, Transfer of Power, Vol. VIII, P.274)

There is no undue weight. This source is important to counter the onesided unsourced information being added by you. Teabing-Leigh 07:32, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

3.Deletion of the Muriel Lester source without advancing reason

Where and WHEN was this deleted. I can't help it if you claim something THAT did not happen Teabing-Leigh 07:32, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

and many more... Kjartan8 07:27, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

No ... there aren't any other deletions only sourced addtions.Teabing-Leigh 07:32, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Gandhi's autobiography dates till 1928 only

Kjartan8 has taken to quoting Gandhi's autobiography which covers events upto 1928. He is putting as a source for events in 1946. Teabing-Leigh 07:23, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Prove it. Kjartan8 07:27, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Prove what. Gandhi's Autobiography "My experiments with the truth" covers only the period up to 1928. You are clearly making up sources as you go along and vandalising others' work for things that you do. Teabing-Leigh 07:29, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Assumption of bad faith is a violation of[REDACTED] regulations. I will add this to my complaint against you. Kjartan8 07:33, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

I have been watching this article and I have seen nothing but vandalism from Kjartan8. YLH 07:43, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

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