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Inside Bengal Politics, 1936-1947: Unpublished Correspondence of Partition Leaders

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Edited correspondence collection

A correspondence-based source for understanding Bengal politics and the decision-making of partition leaders between 1936 and 1947.

Est. 1947 · Bengal✺A Bilingual Archive

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primary-sources · Official Documents and Legal Texts

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1946-1947

Tebhaga Movement

The Tebhaga Movement (1946-1947) was a major sharecropper mobilization in Bengal in which bargadars demanded that two-thirds of harvested produce should remain with cultivators instead of the customary half-share claimed by jotedars. Organized through peasant networks with strong left participation, the movement spread across multiple districts and became one of late-colonial Bengal's most significant agrarian confrontations.

1947

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.