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Bengal Partition: Congress vs. Muslim League by Gohar Jalees is a document available to read on EtoBox.

The partition of Bengal in 1905 divided the region into two provinces based on religious demographics. The Muslim League supported the partition as it gave Muslims majority rule in East Bengal, but Hindus strongly opposed it as it reduced their socio-economic dominance. Hindus saw the partition as a strategy to divide and rule, and launched protests including boycotts. In the document writer

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Gohar Jalees

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