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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.

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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.

1947

Sylhet Referendum

The Sylhet referendum of 1947 determined most of Sylhet's transfer from Assam to East Bengal (Pakistan), making local demography and district-level voting central to border outcomes.