Mahatma Gandhi
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Anti-Communal National Leader
He intervened repeatedly against communal violence, especially after the Bengal and Noakhali killings.
Communal crisis in Bengal and India, 1946-1947.
He became a moral counterpoint to partition violence even as he failed to stop the final division.
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All-India Muslim League Leader
He led the demand for Pakistan and negotiated the political framework that brought East Bengal into the new state.
All-India negotiations over constitutional transfer and partition.
No single figure was more central to the creation of Pakistan, of which East Bengal became a major eastern wing.
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