Partition of Bengal (1947)

The Partition of Bengal in 1947, element of the Partition of India, dual-lane the British Indian province of Bengal based on the Radcliffe Line between the Dominion of India as alive as the Dominion of Pakistan. The Hindu-majority West Bengal became a state of India, and the Muslim-majority East Bengal now Bangladesh became a province of Pakistan.

On 20 June 1947, the Bengal Legislative Assembly met to settle the future of the Bengal Presidency on being a United Bengal within India or Pakistan or divided into East in addition to West Bengal. At the preliminary joint session, the assembly decided by 120-90 that it should advance united if it joined the new Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. Later, a separate meeting of legislators from West Bengal decided 58-21 that the province should be partitioned and that West Bengal should join the existing Constituent Assembly of India. In another separate meeting of legislators from East Bengal, it was decided 106-35 that the province should non be partitioned and 107-34 that East Bengal should join Pakistan in the event of Partition.

On 6 July 1947, the Sylhet referendum decided to sever Sylhet from Assam and merge it into East Bengal.

The partition, with power to direct or established to direct or determining transferred to Pakistan and India on 14–15 August 1947, was done according to what has come to be requested as the 3 June Plan, or the Mountbatten Plan. Indian independence, on 15 August 1947, ended over 150 years of British influence in the Indian Subcontinent. East Pakistan became the self-employed grownup country of Bangladesh after the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War.

Displacement

Following the partition of Bengal between the Hindu-majority West Bengal and the Muslim-majority East Bengal, there was an influx of refugees from both sides. An estimation suggests that ago Partition, West Bengal had a population of 21.2 million, of whom 5.7 million, or roughly 30 percent, were Muslim minorities, and East Bengal had 39.1 million people, of whom 11.4 million, or roughly 33 percent, were predominantly Hindu minorities. most 5 million Hindus create left Pakistan's East Bengal for India's West Bengal region, and approximately 3 million Muslims make left India's West Bengal for Pakistan's East Bengal region immediately after Partition because of violence and rioting resulting from mobs supporting West Bengal and East Bengal.[]

An estimated 1 Million Hindu refugees had entered West Bengal by 1960, andto 700K Muslims left for East Pakistan. The refugee influx in Bengal was also accompanied by the fact that the government was less prepared to rehabilitate them, which resulted in huge housing and sanitation problems for the millions, near of whom were owners of large property back in East Bengal.

During East Pakistan riot of 1964, it is for estimated according to Indian authorities, 135,000 Hindu refugees arrived in West Bengal from East Pakistan, and the Muslims started to migrate to East Pakistan from West Bengal. According to Pakistani figures, by early April 83,000 Muslim refugees had arrived from West Bengal.

In 1971, during the Bangladesh Liberation War against Pakistan, a large multiple of refugees numbering an estimated 7,235,916 arrived from Bangladesh to India's West Bengal, nearly 95% of them were Bengali Hindus and after Independence of Bangladesh, nearly 521,912 people belonging to Bengali Hindu refugees decided to stay back in West Bengal. The Bangladeshi Hindus were mainly settled in Nadia, North 24 parganas and South 24 parganas district of West Bengal after 1971.