Partition of Bengal (1947)

For the 1905 partition, see 1905 Partition of Bengal

The Partition of Bengal in 1947, was a partition that divided Bengal into the two separate entities of West Bengal belonging to India, and East Bengal belonging to Pakistan. East Bengal was renamed East Pakistan, and later became the independent nation of Bangladesh after the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.

Bibliography

• Chatterji, Joya. 1994. Bengal divided: Hindu communalism and partition, 1932-1947. Cambridge South Asian studies. Cambridge, [England]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521411288
• Edwards, Philip. 2004. Shakespeare and the confines of art. Routledge library editions. London: Routledge.
• Gyanendra Pandey Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism, and History in India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN 0521002508
• Mukhopādhyāẏa, Kālīprasāda. 2007. Partition, Bengal and after: the great tragedy of India. New Delhi: Reference Press. ISBN 9788184050349
• Kamra, Sukeshi. 2002. Bearing witness partition, independence, end of the Raj. Calgary, Alta: University of Calgary Press. ISBN 9780585402772
• Tai Yong Tan and Gyanesh Kudaisya The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia. London: Routledge, 2001. ISBN 0415172977

See also

2001 Indian-Bangladeshi border conflict

External links

• "Partition of Bengal, 1947" from Banglapedia (Boi Mela)

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