Photograph of Bengali Refugees at Calcutta Port, boarding a ship to
Andaman Islands, 1949
On 14 March 1949, a group of 495 East Bengali refugees arrived at the Kidderpore dock of Calcutta from a transit camp at Andul, a small town in the Howrah district of West Bengal.
Andaman Islands, 1949
On 14 March 1949, a group of 495 East Bengali refugees arrived at the Kidderpore dock of Calcutta from a transit camp at Andul, a small town in the Howrah district of West Bengal.
Consisting of 132 families, they were first batch of refugees sent to the Andaman Islands for Islands for
resettlement. Their departure was part of a scheme, envisioned & funded by the Ministry of Home Affairs, that proposed resettling 200
refugee families in the Andaman Islands
resettlement. Their departure was part of a scheme, envisioned & funded by the Ministry of Home Affairs, that proposed resettling 200
refugee families in the Andaman Islands
Though 202 families were initially selected for resettlement, interviews and later surveys show that only 197 families actually made the journey
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