The region of Bengal was partitioned twice in the twentieth century and imagined in a multitude of forms at different historical moments. The article describes the conditions that allowed different territories and peoples to crystallise as "Bengal" and "the Bengalis", and investigates why some ...
former region created in 1905 when Bengal Province in northeastern British India was divided into Hindu West Bengal (now Bangla) and the mainly Muslim East Bengal. The division was reversed in 1912 and when British India was partitioned in 1947, East Bengal became East Pakistan. It became the...
(E). Bengal was reestablished as a single province in 1912, but two non-Bengali-speaking provinces, Bihar and Orissa in the west and Assam in the east, were split off. When India was partitioned in 1947, the province was divided along the line approximately separating the two main ...
Partition of West Bengal and Punjab played an integral part in the birth of modern India. These two states of India had the misfortune of having a raw taste of the Partition. The fall-out of such a partition, apart from the associated agony and sufferings, had a differential impact on ...
Mchedlov-Petrosyan,M.I. Rubtsov,L.L. Lukatskaya 摘要: The apparent stepwise ionization constants of Bengal Rose B hydroxyxanthene anionic dye fixed in micelles of anionic surfactants and in mixed micelles of anionic and nonionic surfactants are determined. The tautomeric equilibrium of the dye ...
He had been the pioneering first President of an inchoate Bengal Legislative Council after the first 1912 elections, supported by the eminent British civil servant Sir Henry Cotton (1845-1915), who was Evan Cotton’s father! The elder Cotton is seated to S N Roy’s left in this 1913 ...
(4) But no one out of them was ready to bridge the barrier created between them after the death of their baby. Moreover, as Shukumar thought, ...how he and Shoba had become experts at avoiding each other in their three- bedroom house, spending as much time on separate floors as ...
partitioned Bengalin 1905, making Dacca (nowDhaka, Bangladesh.) the capital of eastern Bengal andAssam. Insistent agitation led to the annulment of this partition in 1911, but at that time the capital of British India was removed from Calcutta toDelhi, where the government could enjoy relative...
Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd earl of Lytton, British governor of Bengal (1922–27) and chairman of the League of Nations mission to Manchuria, which produced the so-called Lytton Report (1932), condemning Japan’s aggression there. His mission was widely pr
India - Partition, Bengal, 1905: The first partition of Bengal in 1905 brought that province to the brink of open rebellion. The British recognized that Bengal, with some 85 million people, was much too large for a single province and determined that it