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The Calcutta Weekly Notes May 24 1948

1948

The root of the trouble is the use of the expression “ admission of an appeal.” The statute does not use it. [...] But all the same the whole of the Bengali-speaking people were not included within the Presidency of Bengal in pursuance of the timhonoured British policy of Divide and Rule. [...] For placating Hindu public opinion in Bengal and allaying any further agitation for the non-inclusion in the new Province of Bengal of some potion of the Bengali-speaking areas it was put in the mouth of the King in His Majesty’s Royal Proclamation on the annument of the Partition of Bengal and the constitution of the Presidency of Bengal 99c The Calcutta Weekly Notes Vol LIL] and the Provi [...] We have shown that the pledge was not fulfilled by the bureaucratic British Goernment of India for the preservation of Muslim majority in the Presidency of Bengal. [...] supporters of the principle of self-detemination but they all seem to be turning a ileaf ear to the universal demand of the oBengali-speaking people for a refixing of the boundaries of Bengal on a linguistic basis.
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4
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100104
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