The roots of Bangladesh go back in the 1905 partition of Bengal ... more than a quarter of a century before Curzon’s arrival, there prevailed a belief that Bengal was too large under a single ...

Partition of Bengal gave rise to a huge body of work — in text and ... this book is an eminently readable account of the emergence of India as a nation. It maps a wide and often complicated terrain of ...

The communal identities it created eventually culminated in the end of British rule and the partition ... of a century before Curzon’s arrival, there prevailed a belief that Bengal was too ...