And in accordance with history, Bengal was partitioned in 1947 likewise. But surely history will not be repeated at this time. A new chronicle will be written as Hindus will identify the swindlers and will opt for the vibrant, audacious and brawny Hindu leadership, discarding them. This is...
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 concentrations of the religious communities....
Satish Saberwal, Spirals of Contention: Why India was Partitioned in 1947 (New Delhi: Routledge), 2008, pp. 342 and Joya Chatterji, The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947–1967ChakrabartyB.ingentaconnectIndian Economic & Social History Review New Delhi...
Groundwater is the main source of domestic and agricultural water for more than 250 million people living in the Bengal Basin, the floodplains, and deltas of the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Meghna Rivers that lie in Bangladesh and India1,2,3. Large-scale abstraction of groundwater over the las...
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 ...
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 ...
There is lack of understanding between them which creates crisis in their marital life. Though they lived in a three bed-room house, there was no warmth in their relationship. However, "There was nothing to indicate that she would not be able to have children in the future." (4) The ...
The data partitioning into 70:30 training and test data was done on the optimal feature set obtained from the Boruta wrapper modelling step using the createDataPartition() function of the caret package resulting in a stratified random split. Cross-validation was conducted on the training dataset ...
West Bengal - Indian History, Colonialism, Partition: The name of Bengal, or Bangla, is derived from the ancient kingdom of Vanga, or Banga. References to it occur in early Sanskrit literature, but its early history is obscure until the 3rd century bce,
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