Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Partition of Bengal 1905
- Aims
- Make British admin more efficient
- Make British rule less susceptible to nationalist political attacks
- Successes
- Created NWFP to act as a buffer between British India and 'Wild North West'
- What exactly happened
- Partitioning of Eastern-Indian province Bengal
- West Bengal to Bihar and Orissa(54m population; 42m hindus, 9m muslims)
- East Bengal to Assam(31m population; 12m hindus, 18m muslims)
- Why Partition?
- Streamline administration
- Bengal was vulnerable to famine/floods/unrest
- Block success of congress- "Divide and Rule"
- Reaction
- Created Muslim majority state- angered Hindus, pleased muslims- Divide and Rule