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Q8
(IAS/2000)
History & Culture › National Movement (1857–1947) › Partition and independence
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At the time of partition of India, which one of the following provinces of the British India came forward with a plan for a united and independent existence ?
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The “United Bengal” or Calcutta Proposal was advanced in April 1947 by H. S. Suhrawardy, then Prime Minister of Bengal, who sought an independent, sovereign, undivided Bengal as a third dominion amid the partition process; the idea briefly attracted support from figures including Gandhi and Jinnah before being rejected[1]. Despite this proposal, the broader settlement led to the division of Bengal into East and West Bengal as part of the 1947 partition arrangements, with provincial assemblies ultimately deciding in favour of partition[2]. Thus, Bengal—rather than Punjab, Assam, or Bihar—was the province that came forward with a plan for united and independent existence at the time of partition.
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- [1] https://indianexpress.com/article/research/a-third-dominion-how-the-plans-for-a-united-bengal-fell-through-7264511/
- [2] Rajiv Ahir. A Brief History of Modern India (2019 ed.). SPECTRUM. > Chapter 25: Independence with Partition > Rationale for an Early Date (August 15, 1947) > p. 495
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