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    The first partition of Bengal, 1905

    Two decades before 1947, a colonial administrative decision split Bengal in two — and produced a mass political movement that reshaped Indian nationalism.

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    1943: The Famine That Policy Made

    At least two to three million people died in Bengal in 1943 and 1944. The rice harvest that year was not the cause. Wartime decisions were.