The communal identities it created eventually culminated in the end of British rule and the partition of India in 1947 The roots of Bangladesh go back in the 1905 partition of Bengal. Ostensibly ...

The roots of Bangladesh go back in the 1905 partition of Bengal. Ostensibly an administrative measure to provide relief to an overburdened state, it laid down the footprint of a longer partition ...

In 1905, all of Bengal rose in uproar because the British had partitioned the state. Yet in 1947, the same people insisted on a partition along communal lines. Why did this happen? Nitish Sengupta ...