Hindu nationalist ideas shaped the political discourse of the Bhadralo’ upper-middle classes and parties campaigned on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Suhrawardy Avenue was not originally named after Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, but after Sir Hassan Suhrawardy, former VC of Calcutta University. The BJP is trying to force a departure from Bengal's own ...

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 ...

“Allah Meherban! You tell me which one is my country. How could I live in peace in this land you made for me?” the old man cried aloud at the end of his namaz. He was praying under a tree in scorching ...

Think Partition, and our minds spontaneously go to those who came in from West Pakistan. It is as if the Bengal exodus is a ...

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 ...