1946 Bihar riots and 1940s; in the 1945 alone, 1,809 riots took place in Uttar Pradesh, and 3,176 riots took place across the country in 1946. On 16 August 1946, the All-India Muslim League proclaimed Direct Action Day in Calcutta, as part of their demand for a separate state for Muslims. Major riots ensued across the city, with 4,000 people being killed. These riots triggered communal violence across the country, including in Bihar. The Noakhali riots that occurred from 10–21 October also provoked violence in Bihar. The trigger for the riots that occurred in June was a dispute concerning a false allegation that
Provinces of Portugal referred to as "províncias" (). Each comarca was headed by an administrative and judicial magistrate, which represented Royal power in each jurisdiction of the country. These magistrates were, initially, called "tenents" (), later "meirinhos-mores" and finally, "corregedores". These six comarcas, with some changes, would be maintained as the principal administrative division of country until the 19th century. Around the 17th Century, the provinces were subdivided into individual "comarcas" or "correições" (), with their own "corregedor" (), and the provinces, as an administrative and civic role, began to be used as a statistical unit. Meanwhile, at the same time that its