Here, we look at one the 20th century’s most horrifying religious riots — a conflagration that took place over several days in August 1946 in Calcutta (now Kolkata), in British-ruled India ...

Before then, a visual reminder of the incident, dubbed by many as the Columbia race riot of 1946, could only be found in history books propped on library shelves. On Feb. 25, 1946 ...