As per the Refugee Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the Government of West Bengal, the census figures show the number of refugees from East Pakistan in 1971 was nearly 6 million and in 1981, the number was assessed at 8 million.
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Dec 19, 2021 · Almost 9 million refugees were repatriated by February 1972, but 1 – 1.5 million stayed back – some were repatriated afterwards. Nonetheless a ...
1971 witnessed worst human influx from Bangladesh to neighboring India. Indian government reports that around 8-9 million migrants took shelter in 829 refugee ...
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Dec 16, 2022 · She recalls her refugee days in Kolkata and the war of liberation where she played an active part, to commemorate December 16, 1971, the day ...
Aug 10, 2022 · Netaji Nagar was one of the many refugee colonies that came up in Kolkata after India was partitioned in 1947. Based on religion, the so-called ...
The East Bengali refugees started coming to India from March 1971 till the end of the war and subsequent freedom of Bangladesh from. Pakistan in December 1971.
Jan 12, 2022 · The Pakistan Army unleashed a wave of brutal atrocities against the innocent and unarmed people of Bangladesh (the independence of the country ...
After the end of the war, and the establishment of independence by Bangladesh, the great majority of the refugees were repatriated volun- tarily. However, more ...
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The refugees came in large numbers to the city of Calcutta. The influx began in April and came to an end in early December 1971. Therefore, the refugees stayed ...
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Allen Ginsberg's poem about refugees during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 paints a picture that anyone with even a perfunctory knowledge of the ...
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