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❦Joya Chatterji
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Bengal Divided: Hindu Communalism and Partition, 1932-1947
research-articles-and-papers · Scholarly Articles and Papers
A core academic reference for understanding Bengal politics, Hindu communalism, and the road to partition from 1932 to 1947.
The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947-1967
primary-sources · Official Documents and Legal Texts
Important for understanding post-partition West Bengal, refugees, citizenship, borders, and the long-term impact of partition.
The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947-1967
research-articles-and-papers · Scholarly Articles and Papers
A major Bengal-focused study of partition's aftermath, displacement, state formation, and long political consequences.
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Partition and Eastern Bengal
In 1947, British India was divided into India and Pakistan, and Bengal itself was split into West Bengal and East Bengal. The chapter is not only about constitutional division: the delayed Radcliffe boundary, minority insecurity, refugee movement, and administrative rupture reshaped everyday life and set the stage for later struggles over language, autonomy, and state legitimacy in East Bengal.
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United Bengal Proposal
In 1947, political leaders advanced a United Bengal proposal to preserve Bengal as an undivided political unit, but the plan failed amid all-India partition negotiations and communal polarization.
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Bengal Famine
The Bengal Famine of 1943 caused catastrophic hunger and death across Bengal. Wartime disruption, rice-market inflation, transport strain, relief failure, and policy breakdown under British colonial administration intensified the crisis, devastating rural households, laboring families, and urban poor communities alike.