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The '''1930 Dhaka riots''' was a communal violence involving loot and [[arson]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Datta |first=Pradip Kumar |year=1999 |title=Carving Blocs: Communal Ideology in Early Twentieth-century Bengal |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=283–285 |isbn=9780195643794}}</ref>

== Events ==
On the night of 9 June, a nearly 1,000 strong Muslim crowd cried that the Hindus had tried to set their houses on fire. The revenge against the attack was taken on the night of 10 June. The miscreants set fire to the timber go-down adjoining the residence of Shyam Chand Basak, a well to do businessman from Nawabpur.<ref name="prabasi0337">{{cite news |title=ঢাকায় উপদ্রব |language=Bangla |trans-title=Disturbances in Dhaka |newspaper=[[Prabasi]] |location=Kolkata |date=June–July 1930  }}</ref>

=== Looting in nearby villages ===
When rioting started in Dhaka city, the nearby villages were looted as well.<ref name="prabasi0437">{{cite news |title=ঢাকায় ও নিকটস্থ গ্রামে উপদ্রব |language=Bangla |trans-title=Disturbances in Dhaka and nearby villages |newspaper=[[Prabasi]] |location=Kolkata |date=July–August 1930 }}</ref> The families belonging to the [[Bengali Hindu]] trading castes were the worst affected. The Hindu men, women and children took refuge in the nearby jute fields to save their lives. {{citation needed|date=June 2022}} They looted every movable article in the houses, including the wooden doors and in one or two cases, the corrugated iron sheets used for roofing. They dug up the ground and searched the bottom of the ponds, every nook and corner of the homestead, where valuable household articles like bell metal utensils may have been hidden. In one case, a ''[[dhenki]]'' was looted.<ref name="prabasi0437"/>{{better source|date=June 2022}}

== Investigation ==
Two independent committees were set up for investigating into the disturbances, one by the government and other by the citizens of Dhaka. Many people, including eminent citizens of Dhaka deposed before the latter committee. The eminent citizens included P. Haldar of Government Women's Teacher Training School, Tapas Ranjan Bandyopadhyay of Dhaka Jana Samiti, Rajani Kanta Basak, the Direct of Dhakeshwari Cotton Mills and Surendranath Bhattacharya, retired police inspector. The witnesses stated that the Deputy Superintendent of Police was seen going around the city in company of 300 to 400 Muslim goons. P. Haldar witnessed Muslims looting shops near her school and saw police constables taking part in the looting.<ref name="basumati0337">{{cite news |title=ঢাকা |language=Bangla |trans-title=Dhaka |newspaper=Masik Basumati |location=Kolkata |date=June–July 1930 |pages=543–544}}</ref>

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=zW30rV_UAskC Bengal Partition Stories: An Unclosed Chapter]
* [https://books.google.com/books?id=FxhuAAAAMAAJ Carving blocs: communal ideology in early twentieth-century Bengal]

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