History Of Bengal

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<!--QuoteBegin-Ravish+Dec 11 2005, 01:01 PM-->QUOTE(Ravish @ Dec 11 2005, 01:01 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>nd the plan for their rehabilitation on a all India basis never got implemented. </b>.
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yes.

wanted to point out that for some reason bengalis find it difficult to assimilate with the greater hindi speaking population (they have a presence in delhi, varanasi, and a bit in lucknow and allahbad).

i mean punjabis also lost half their land and sindhis all of theirs. yet they could spread all over india and punjab never got engulfed by immigrants - cos punjabis can adopt to all places (even outside india) and so the LAND OF PUNJAB did not have to bear the whole burden. not so unfortunately in bengal.

beside the division of bengal by the brits was clinical and cruel - they kept calcutta on one side and the whole hinterland on the other. they wanted to neuter bengal as a force and that they did. bengal bore the brunt of the colonial looting and also bangladesh was basically a "colony" of pakistan till 71. the fall out of all of that is the waves of refugees.


i agree with all of your post.