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2. Partition of Bengal (1905) - Wikipedia

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   The Partition of Bengal in 1905 was essentially aimed at debilitating the Bengali nationalists, who were part of the Congress party. However, Curzon's plan did not work at the time as intended because it only further encouraged the extremists within Congress to resist and rebel against the colonial government.

3. George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston - Wikipedia

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   Curzon proposed the Partition of Bengal and put it into effect on 16 October 1905 creating the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam. Behind this incident, his excuse was that the area of Bengal was too large and it was difficult for the British to administer efficiently but actually his intention was to divide Bengalis into religious and ...

4. Eastern Bengal and Assam - Wikipedia

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   Lord Curzon initiated the creation of Eastern Bengal and Assam Founding conference of the All India Muslim League in Dacca, 1906. Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, proposed the Partition of Bengal and put it into effect on 16 October 1905. Dacca, the former Mughal capital of Bengal, regained its status as a seat of government.

5. United Bengal - Wikipedia

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   The partition in 1905 reunited these districts with eastern Bengal through the formation of two new provinces; Eastern Bengal and Assam and Western Bengal. However, this was strongly protested by Bengalis and the authorities assented to reversing this partition in 1912.

6. Bengal Presidency - Wikipedia

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   A statue in Calcutta Victoria Memorial of Lord Curzon, who announced the creation of Eastern Bengal and Assam on 16 October 1905. The partition of the large province of Bengal, which was decided upon by Lord Curzon, and Cayan Uddin Ahmet, the Chief Secretary of Bengal carried into execution in October 1905.

7. Kolkata Partition Museum - Wikipedia

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   [18] Notable historical events like the Partition of Bengal in 1905 ordered by viceroy Lord Curzon, the Bengal famine of 1943, the Great Calcutta Killings of 1946, the Independence and Partition in 1947, the 1958 Resettlement project for East Pakistan refugees in Dandakaranya, the Birth of Bangladesh in 1971, and the Marichjhapi Massacre of ...

8. Federation Hall, Kolkata - Wikipedia

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   While Lord Curzon proposed the Partition of Bengal in 1905, Bengali nationalist figure like Surendra Nath Banerjee, Rabindranath Tagore, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Taraknath Palit, Ananda Mohan Bose formed this educational, cultural and socio-political organisation. [2] It was founded on 16 October 1905 in Kolkata on Raksha Bandhan ceremony. [3]

9. Herbert Hope Risley - Wikipedia

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   In the following year he became Home Secretary in India in the administration of Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, and in 1909 was temporarily a member of the governing council. His experience of administrative matters, including with regard to policing, proved to be useful to Curzon during the government's 1905 partition of Bengal along ...