The communal identities it created eventually culminated in the end of British rule and the partition of India in 1947 The roots of Bangladesh go back in the 1905 partition of Bengal. Ostensibly ...

Four centuries ago, the Muslim population of Dhaka was relatively small. However, the arrival of the Mughals precipitated a ...

the partition of India in 1947, with Bengal being divided into West Bengal and East Pakistan, and finally, into Bangladesh in 1971.

Historiographically, the history presented in this volume fills a crucial academic gap by giving a voice to many voiceless ...

Any reorganisation of states must capitalise on our main advantage as a nation, and this is our rich micro-diversity in terms ...

At the time of partition of India in 1947, some areas of Dinajpur and Jalpaiguri in West Bengal were allotted to East ...

JOGINDER BAINS argues that the infamously cruel and calculated mass murder of Indians blocked into a public square and fired upon by the British Indian Army still faces a reckoning ...

The TMC-led West Bengal government has already started laying the groundwork for the election, setting the tone with the recent Bengal Global Business Summit and the state Budget.

This criticism was valid, as it allowed the partition of Punjab and Bengal ... willing to let a united and independent Bengal emerge on August 15, 1947, but then, Jawaharlal Nehru and Vallabhbhai ...