Talk:1946 Bihar riots

Misuse of sources.

Lede

• Mitra 1990 deals predominantly with Calcutta riots (clear from the title too). It makes passing reference to Bihar riots and emphatically puts the cause as the Noakhali riots.
• Das 2000 deals exclusively with Calcutta riots (clear from the title too). All it has about 1946 Bihar riot is: The Great Calcutta Killings spread to Bihar.

Neither give a summary of "Hindu mobs targeted Muslim families". Neither give "between 2,000 and 30,000 people were killed".

Body

• Khan 2007, p. 68. Has no mention of Bihar at all.
• Markovitz 2015. gives one line description which says it was in "retaliation" to Noakhali riots.
• The Washington Post, New York Times is not WP:HISTRS source, they are news source, the content sourced to them have no other backing.
• Wilkinson 2006, p. 5. Makes a passing mention, with the objective to implicate Congress party, as the book explores connection of riots to politics.

--AmritasyaPutra^T 10:01, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

There is not a single substantive complaint here. To take your "misuses" in order; 1) Neither of those are used for what you claim them to be used for. 2) I don't use Khan to talk about Bihar; the sentence refers to Noakhali. Which is exactly what page 68 talks about 3) So? I haven't stated a single thing from that source in Wikipedia's voice. 4) Again, so what?

Seriously, go find something more useful to do with your time; there is no substance in anything you've said here. If you think there is, take it to RSN; I am not responding to further meaninglessness. And if this is not stalking, I don't know what is. Vanamonde93 (talk) 11:05, 4 December 2015 (UTC)

With you extreme level of personal bias and attack I humbly admit it is useless to try to have a conversation with you. Any person can trivially easily validate my points. --AmritasyaPutra^T 04:32, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

So go find this "any person", or come back with more substantive arguments. Vanamonde93 (talk) 06:25, 7 December 2015 (UTC)

Nehru's letter to Padmaja Naidu

Source: Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Second Series, Vol. 1, page 65, digitally published on The Nehru Archives (nehruarchive.in) set up by the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund, a trust run by the Nehru family, currently chaired by Sonia Gandhi.

In the letter to Padmaja Naidu dated 5 November 1946, Nehru wrote that he felt relieved to learn that approximately 400 members of a Hindu peasant mob had been killed by the military. He stated, "Normally such a thing would have horrified me. But would you believe it? I was greatly relieved to hear it!", explaining that "a few days ago. Hindu peasant mobs have behaved in a manner that is the extreme of brutality and inhumanity. How many have been done to death by them I do not yet know, but it must be a vast number." He added that "so when the news came that they have been stopped at last in one place and that 400 of them had died, I felt that the balance had been very slightly righted."

I have added this in the article. Teegarden's Star b (talk) 13:22, 29 November 2025 (UTC)