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unusual facts about Partition of Bengal


Maulana Maniruzzaman Islamabadi

Maniruzzaman Islamabadi supported the Indian National Congress and took an active part in the movement for the annulment of the Partition of Bengal.


History of the University of Dhaka

The Partition of Bengal in 1905 provided the Muslim majority community of East Bengal and Assam with a sphere of influence of their own and raised new hopes for the development of the region and advancement of its people.


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All India Muhammadan Educational Conference

After the Congress sponsored agitation against the partition of Bengal (1905) an All India Muhammadan Educational Conference was held at Shahbag in Dhaka, capital of the then East Bengal and Assam Province in the year 1906.

Anne-Marie Mallik

The movement against partition of Bengal in 1905 was mainly directed from the family's ancestral house in Calcutta under the leadership of Arabinda Ghose.

Hemanta Kumar Sarkar

In late 1946, Sarkar formed the Bengal Partition League along with Syama Prasad Mookerjee, Nalinaksha Sanyal, Colonel A.C. Chatterjee and others to press for the partition of Bengal and formation of a separate province for the Bengali Hindu people.

History of the University of Dhaka

Following demands by Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah Bahadur and others, in 2 February 1912 Viceroy Lord Hardinge proposed that a new University should be established in this partition of Bengal.

Rasikendra Nath Nandi

The family of Rasikendra Nath migrated to Ushumpur, Agarpara in North 24 Parganas district, near Kolkata with thousands of other refugee families after the partition of Bengal in 1947.