Despite the chaos and confusion during World War II, the city recorded a steady growth of population except for the year 1942 when the city experienced two air strikes by the Japanese forces. But the war blackouts over the city intensified panic over food shortage, robbery, beggary and suspicion towards neighbors. The behavioral difference between the upper class ‘bhadralok’ (urban literate elite) and the migrant ‘chhototolok’ (streetwise displaced non-elite) became a recurrent marker of the upper class anxiety. Suspicion and fear led to some sort of social anxiety. The famine of 1943 again turned the table and Calcutta experienced a huge migration towards the city of the rural poor that made the inhabitants accustomed with new terms like ‘relief’ and ‘rehabilitation’ in their colloquial vocabulary. The ‘Bengal Tragedy’ started enormously with the Bengal famine, causing misery at every level from urban cities to rural areas of Bengal by the death toll of millions. The idea of ‘Golden Bengal well-watered, fruitful, abundant with crops’ became the deathbed of 3.5 and 3.8 million people. The New Statesman of London (24 September, 1943) mentioned, ‘The description of life in Calcutta reads like extracts from the medieval chronicle of black death’. Such catastrophes pushed people to migrate to Calcutta in huge numbers. With the increasing number of immigrants Calcutta was growing like a city of immigrants. The ‘up-country’ population was settling down throughout the breadth and length of Calcutta in thousands. It was like the continuation of economic migration from rural Bengal. The allegation of bringing bias and prejudice started forming against the immigrants. A perception that ‘they invited unruliness’ and ‘were at times an irritant for the settled population of Bengalis’ got cemented. The urban space of Calcutta transformed into a land of anguish, with a prevailing sense of insecurity, confusion and chaos. It is often characterized and called as aporadhpuri (territory of crimes).