the process of NRC. In his own words, the refugees(non Muslim migrants) will be granted citizenship and the infiltrators (Muslim migrants – he also referred to them astermitesat one instance) will be thrown out or prosecuted (there was some talk of throwing them into the Bay of Bengal)...
Amounts Tender Value 11.43 Lac EMD Refer Document Document Cost 1 Thousand 1. providing fresh coat of painting above main entrance of nabaprajanma annex at vivekananda yuba bharati krirangan salt lake, during the year 2020-2021. 2. thorough development of the outside portion of newly constructed...
On the Partition experiences of women in Bengal, see Jasodhara Bagchi and Subhoranjan Dasgupta, eds., The Trauma and the Triumph: Gender and Partition in Eastern India (Calcutta: Bhatkal and Sen, 2003). 18. I borrow this observation from Rabia Umar Ali, “Muslim Women and the Partition of...
“direct action day” on August 16, 1946, which spiraled into communal rioting that left thousands dead in what was later remembered as the “GreatCalcuttaKilling.” The event was met soon after with reprisals in a deeply dividedBengal, and the cycle of violence later spread to other ...
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
Boundary Commission, consultative committee created in July 1947 to recommend how the Punjab and Bengal regions of the Indian subcontinent were to be divided between India and Pakistan shortly before each was to become independent from Britain. The commi
By 1930 a number of Indian Muslims had begun to think in terms of separate statehood for their minoritycommunity, whose population dominated thenorthwestern provincesof British India and the eastern half of Bengal, as well as important pockets of theUnited Provincesand the great princely state of...
had a difficult task before it. UnlikeMuhammad Iqbal’searlier vision for Pakistan, the country had been formed from the two regions where Muslims were the majority—the northwestern portion he had espoused and the territories and the eastern region ofBengal province(which itself had also been div...