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How the idea of Bengal partition fuelled the Swadeshi movement in IndiaBengal, which had become a bastion for the British since the 18th century, was now poised to turn against them. In 1905, ...
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‘I refuse your partition’ — Faiz to Shankha Ghosh, how Bengali poets captured 1947 violenceThe violence in Bengal had precedent in the 1905 partition of the province by former Viceroy George Curzon. The move aimed to suppress the growing nationalist movement in Calcutta, where Bengalis ...
The name “West Bengal” comes from the 1905 partition of Bengal, when the British divided Bengal into East Bengal (Muslim majority) and West Bengal (Hindu majority). Although the partition was ...
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