In his book Modern India 1885 - 1947, the Indian historian Sumit Sarkar wrote: «As early as August 15, Linlithgow had ordered the use of «machine - gunning from air»
against crowds disrupting communications around Patna, and aeroplanes were used also in Bhagalpur and Monghyr in Bihar, Nadia and Tamluk in Bengal, and Talcher in Orissa.»