HC Deb 18 November 1946 vol 430 c13W
2. Mr. R. A. Butler

asked the Under-Secretary of State for India, with reference to his announcement on 4th November, in the last Session of Parliament, that casualties in communal riots in India between 1st July and 30th October, excluding

Place. Dead. Injured. Period.
Bombay Province:
Bombay City … … 412 1,269 1st September-27th October
Ahmedabad … … 52 230 1st July-30th September
Nasik … … 6 20 3rd-5th September
Nizampur (Kolaba District) … … 5 20 23rd-24th October
Sangamner (Ahmednagar District) … … 1 3 21st-24th October
Madras Province:
Salem and Kurmool District … … 3 21 8th-9th October
Punjab:
Ludhiana … … 8 18 24th-27th October
United Provinces:
Agra … … 13 56 25th September
Delhi … … 6 70 24th August
Bihar:
Chapra and Saran District … … 63 250 25th-28th October
Bhagalpur … … 14 43 28th October
Central Provinces and Berar:
Saugor … … 1 5 Early September
Orissa:
Bhadrak … … 3 8 24th July
Bengal:
Calcutta … … 4,000 10,000 16th-19th August
Calcutta … … 207 921 20th August-31st October
Dacca and Chittagong … … 300 700 20th August-1st October
ALL INDIA TOTALS … … 5,094 13,634 1st July-31st October
NOTE.—It will be noticed that the total figures for both killed and injured are slightly in excess of those previously given. This is due to the fact that the latter were received from India in response to a telegraphic request sent at the end of October for total figures; whereas the figures in the above statement are compiled from information received from day to day in the India Office over a considerable period. No doubt some of the figures for particular incidents given in the statement have been revised in India in the light of later information with a resultant slight decrease as shown in the total figures previously given. The figures in the above table do, however, give a fair appreciation of the relative incidence of casualties. It must be emphasised, moreover, that owing to the difficulty of accurate assessment, any figures that could be supplied would at best be approximate and in some cases largely conjectural.