:''For the 1905 partition, see
1905 Partition of Bengal''
The 'Partition of Bengal' in 1947, part of the
Partition of India, was a
partition that divided
Bengal into the two separate entities of
West Bengal belonging to
India, and
East Bengal belonging to
Pakistan. East Bengal was renamed
East Pakistan, and later became the independent nation of
Bangladesh after the
Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971.
Bibliography
★ Gyanendra Pandey ''Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism, and History in India''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN 0521002508
★ Tai Yong Tan and Gyanesh Kudaisya ''The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia''. London: Routledge, 2001. ISBN 0415172977
External links
★
"Partition of Bengal, 1947" from Banglapedia (Boi Mela)
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