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 ...

The separation ignited strong resistance in Bengal, turning the partition against the British. With an estimated population ...