The Bengali Hindu homeland movement.
1947, in the wake of Muslim leagues proposal and campaign to include entire Bengal in East Pakistan. The Hindus fought for their own state within Union of India. The Hindudom of West Bengal.
1947, in the wake of Muslim leagues proposal and campaign to include entire Bengal in East Pakistan. The Hindus fought for their own state within Union of India. The Hindudom of West Bengal.
1946 direct action day turned the tides against the league. The Bengali Hindu retaliation increased the death toll of Ms to an extent the league could never think of. The league's dream of taking Calcutta was shaken.
Towards the end of 1946, the Bengal Partition League was formed by eminent Bengali Hindu intellectuals as an association for the partition of Bengal. The key people among them were Hemanta Kumar Sarkar, , Major General A. C. Chatterjee,
Jadab Panja, Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee, Upendranath Banerjee, Dr Shishir Kumar Banerjee, Subhodh Chandra Mitra and Shailendra Kumar Ghosh. The Bengal Partition League later came to be known as the Bengal Provincial Conference.
In February, the Bengal Provincial Hindu Mahasabha constituted a committee for the creation of a separate province for the Hindus of Bengal and began their campaign in the districts.
On 29 March, at the annual meeting of the British Indian Association, a proposal was passed for the constitution of a homeland for the Bengali Hindus. On 1 April, 11 members of the Constituent Assembly from Bengal submitted a memorandum to the Viceroy, in support of the Partition
In April's Tarakeswar conference Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee, SP Mookerjee, Sanat Kumar Roy Chaudhuri, Surya Kumar Bose all asked for partition of Bengal. It was decided that 100,000 volunteers would be enrolled for the purpose by the end of June.
On 23 April, Syama Prasad Mookerjee met Viceroy Mountbatten and explained that if the Cabinet Mission plan failed and British India was to be partitioned, then Bengal should also be partitioned.
On 26 April, both Kiran Shankar Roy and Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy assured Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee, that they would convince the Congress Working Committee of the need of partition of Bengal. On 3 May, two Scheduled Caste representatives of the Constituent Assembly
from eastern Bengal met Viceroy Mountbatten at aparty and stated that the Scheduled Castes on of Muslims.They firmly demanded the partition of Bengal and suggested that the seven million Scheduled Castes should be relocated in the proposed Bengali Hindu homeland in western Bengal
The BPDCL secretary R. Das clarified that the Jogendranath Mandal's views are not supported by the majority.journals.sagepub.com
No less than 76 Partition meetings were held, of which 59 were convened by the Congress, 12 by the Mahasabha and five jointly.
Dinesh Chandra Sinha, Hemanta Kumar Sarkar, SajaniKanta Das wrote a series of article in The Roy's, Amrita Bazar Patrika, Dainik Basumati, Shanibarer Chithi in favour of Bengali Hindu homeland and created mass awareness among people.
Amrit Bazar Patrikas revealed 98.3% Hindus wanted partition. The Statesman commented that the resentment among the middle class Bengali Hindus towards the Muslim League government was so high that nothing less than Partition would satisfy them. A partition fund was created.
On 7 May, eminent Bengali Hindu intellectuals like Meghnad Saha, Jadunath Sarkar, Ramesh Chandra Majumdar and Suniti Kumar Chatterji demanded a separate homeland for the Bengali Hindu people on the ground of security.
In May, both the Hindu Mahasabha and Congress jointly convened a mammoth public meeting, presided over by historian Jadunath Sarkar, to press for Partition
3 June, Mountbatten announces plan for the Partition of Bengal. On 28 June 1947, Frederick Burrows, the Governor of Bengal invited Prafulla Chandra Ghosh, the leader of the Congress Assembly Party in Bengal to form a cabinet.
On 2nd July. Prafulla Ghosh announced an eleven-member cabinet with portfolios. The cabinet included Scheduled Caste members like Hem Chandra Naskar and Radhanath Das. India became Independent in 1947, there was huge influx of Hindus from east Pakistan where major violence
Occured on Hindus. It led to strong retaliation against Muslims in west Bengal which led to 2 million Muslims leaving for east pakistan. If not for Nehru Liaquat pact. There would have been only 2% muslims in Bengal.
The West Bengal State had stallwart leaders like Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy, Siddhartha Sankar Ray etc that made it into leading state of India.
And we must protect this Hindudom and return back to our former glory.
And we must protect this Hindudom and return back to our former glory.
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