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A Date Bengal Should Not Have Forgotten
by rawemotions Sun Jul 10, 2016 11:42 am
http://swarajyamag.com/politics/a-date-that-bengal-should-not-have-forgotten
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The Progressive Coalition Ministry headed by Huq, with Mookerjee as finance minister, assumed office in December 1941 and functioned till March 1943. Huq was succeeded by Muslim League’s Khawaja Nazimuddin, a scion of the Dhaka royal family, who reigned till March 1945. It was during his tenure that the infamous Bengal famine of 1943, which took the lives of more than 3 million people, occurred. The provincial government acted in a highly partisan manner, providing relief to Muslims and ignoring Hindus. Mookerjee and other Hindu Mahasabha leaders protested vigorously against this. After World War II, elections were held in 1946, and the Muslim League won 113 seats in the 250-member Assembly and formed the government with HS Suhrawardy as the Prime Minister in April 1946.
Communal tensions in Bengal were at their peak by the time Suhrawardy took over. And he accentuated those tensions through his blatantly and shamelessly communal actions. Suhrawardy’s recruitment of 600 Punjabi Muslims into the Calcutta Police, the way his government allowed them to loot Hindu households and rape and molest Hindu women, and the anti-Hindu policies he pursued (all of which have been extensively documented and is beyond refutation) ultimately convinced many Bengali Hindus that a separate province for themselves was a necessity to escape harassment, torture and even annihilation at the hands of the majority Muslims of Bengal.
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The Progressive Coalition Ministry headed by Huq, with Mookerjee as finance minister, assumed office in December 1941 and functioned till March 1943. Huq was succeeded by Muslim League’s Khawaja Nazimuddin, a scion of the Dhaka royal family, who reigned till March 1945. It was during his tenure that the infamous Bengal famine of 1943, which took the lives of more than 3 million people, occurred. The provincial government acted in a highly partisan manner, providing relief to Muslims and ignoring Hindus. Mookerjee and other Hindu Mahasabha leaders protested vigorously against this. After World War II, elections were held in 1946, and the Muslim League won 113 seats in the 250-member Assembly and formed the government with HS Suhrawardy as the Prime Minister in April 1946.
Communal tensions in Bengal were at their peak by the time Suhrawardy took over. And he accentuated those tensions through his blatantly and shamelessly communal actions. Suhrawardy’s recruitment of 600 Punjabi Muslims into the Calcutta Police, the way his government allowed them to loot Hindu households and rape and molest Hindu women, and the anti-Hindu policies he pursued (all of which have been extensively documented and is beyond refutation) ultimately convinced many Bengali Hindus that a separate province for themselves was a necessity to escape harassment, torture and even annihilation at the hands of the majority Muslims of Bengal.
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