Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Rarraba Bengal a cikin 1905 a kan tushen addini ya haifar da zanga-zangar jama'a, yana mai da Calcutta wuri mara kyau ga Birtaniyya. Babban birnin ya koma New Delhi a shekarar 1911. Calcutta ya ci gaba da kasancewa cibiyar kungiyoyin juyin juya hali da ke da alaƙa da yunkurin samun 'yancin kai na Indiya. Birnin da tashar jirgin ruwansa sun yi ruwan bama-bamai sau da yawa daga Jafananci tsakanin 1942 da 1944, a lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na II. Daidai da yaƙin, miliyoyin mutane sun mutu da yunwa a lokacin yunwar Bengal na 1943 saboda haɗuwa da sojoji, gudanarwa, da dalilai na halitta. A shekara ta 1946, 'yan Islama sun yi ta neman a kafa ƙasarsu, kuma hakan ya jawo tashin hankali da ya yi sanadiyyar mutuwar mutane fiye da 4,000. Rarraba Indiya ya haifar da ƙarin rikice-rikice da canjin yanayin ƙasa - Musulmai da yawa sun bar Gabashin Pakistan (Bangladesh na yanzu), yayin da ɗaruruwan dubban 'yan Hindu suka gudu zuwa cikin birni. A cikin shekarun 1960 da 1970, ƙarancin wutar lantarki, yajin aiki, da kuma tashin hankali na Marxist-Maoist ƙungiyoyi da aka sani da Naxalites sun lalata yawancin abubuwan da ke cikin birnin, wanda ya haifar da koma bayan tattalin arziki. Yakin 'Yanci na Bangladesh na 1971 ya haifar da kwararar dubban' yan gudun hijira, da yawa daga cikinsu ba su da kuɗi, wanda ya matsa wa kayayyakin aikin Kolkata. A tsakiyar shekarun 1980, Mumbai (da ake kira Bombay a lokacin) ta wuce Kolkata a matsayin birni mafi yawan jama'a a Indiya. A shekarar 1985, firaminista Rajiv Gandhi ya kira Kolkata "birni mai mutuwa" saboda matsalolin zamantakewa da siyasa. A cikin lokacin 1977-2011, Bangal ta Yammacin Bengal ta kasance daga Kolkata ta hanyar Left Front, wanda Jam'iyyar Kwaminis ta Indiya (CPM) ta mamaye shi. Ita ce gwamnatin kwaminisanci da aka zaba ta hanyar dimokiradiyya mafi tsayi a duniya, a lokacin da Kolkata ta kasance babbar cibiya ga kwaminisancin Indiya. A zaben Majalisar Dokokin Bengal ta Yamma, 2011, Jam'iyyar Left Front ta sha kaye a hannun Trinamool Congress. Farfadowar tattalin arzikin birnin ya sami ci gaba bayan shekarun 1990, lokacin da Indiya ta fara aiwatar da gyare-gyaren kasuwa. Tun shekara ta 2000, sashen sabis na fasahar bayanai (IT) ya sake farfado da tattalin arzikin Kolkata. Birnin kuma...  Tambaya: Mutane nawa ne suka mutu a tashin hankalin 1946?
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