Did Nehru discriminate against Bengal's Partition refugees? A historical analysis of the Nehru-Liaquat Pact, refugee ...

Seventy-six years after the Partition of the Indian subcontinent, we are still a long way from understanding the complex ways in which this event affected the everyday lives of people and communities ...

Bengal was partitioned twice. First in 1905 when the heightened protest against this reunited Bengal in 1911. Then, it was divided again in 1947 during the partition of India. But this time, it was ...

India's liberation from British rule marked a significant turning point, coinciding with the partition on August 15, 1947. This division affected Punjab and Bengal differently, yet both regions ...

The Bengal Partition of 1905 was a British colonial government decision to divide Bengal into East Bengal and Assam with a Muslim majority, and West Bengal with a Hindu majority due to administrative ...

India, July 13 -- A confident Bengal, firmly anchored in its civilisational heritage and fully aligned with the aspirations ...

The roots of Bangladesh go back in the 1905 partition of Bengal. Ostensibly an administrative measure to provide relief to an overburdened state, it laid down the footprint of a longer partition that ...

1905 saw a change in the direction of India’s nationalist struggle and deepened a communal divide that would haunt India for decades to come. The reason: Lord Curzon, the imperial Viceroy, decided it ...

Travelling back to 1765, after the Battle of Buxar, Bengal – comprising West Bengal, Bihar, Odisha, Bangladesh, and Assam – came under British rule. Fast forward to the early 20th Century, and this ...