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Marketing Fragment 6 X 10.T65 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-87536-3 - The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947-1967 Joya Chatterji Index More information Index 24 Parganas, 29, 31, 52 Tripuri, session of, 277 Working Committee of, 11, 15 A All-India Hindu Mahasabha, 260, 264, 265, Acts 266, 268, 269, 302 ‘Black Acts’, 308 All-India Parliamentary Board (also see Coal Mines Act (1961), 259 Lahiry, Ashutosh), 273 Evacuee Properties Act (1951), 181 elections: 1948, 271–2 Government of India Act (1920), 11, 40, 61 1952, 268, 272, 273, 275, 276, 277, Government of India Act (1935), 12, 61, 278, 289, 297 70, 75, 83 1957, 299 North’s Regulating Act (1773), 61 1967, 275 Preventive Detention Act (1950), 290 1971, 275 Taxation Act (1935), 77 Hindus, definition of, 266, 304 West Bengal Act XVI, The Rehabilitation leadership in Delhi, 265 of Displaced Persons (1951), 225, Muslims, exclusion of, 266, 271, 272, 295, 299 273, 297, 303 West Bengal Animal Slaughter Control refugees, and, 261, 263, 291, 293 Act (1950), 178, 179 resignations from, 267, 291 West Bengal Security Act (1948), 225 Working Committee, 262, 272 Ahmad, Muzaffar, 297 14 February 1948, 262 All-Bengal Refugee Council, 270 8 August 1948, 265 All-Bengal Teachers’ Association, 6 and 7 November 1948, 266 287, 290 26 December 1948, decisions of, All-Bengal Teachers’ Struggle 266, 267 Coordination Committee, 290 All-India Momin Conference (leftist All-India Congress Committee (AICC), 11, group), 299 12, 13, 14, 15, 23, 25, 63, 96, 214, All Party Teachers Struggle Coordination 215, 216, 218, 219, 227, 228, 230, Committee, 287 231, 232, 234, 235, 237, 258, 260, Ambedkar, Dr B. R. (Bhim Rao), 67, 72, 276, 278, 283, 285, 287, 288, 290, 90, 93, 94, 102 295, 297, 299 amendments to Draft Constitution, 80, 1934 (Gandhi’s constitution), 96 82, 101, 102 centre, 56 and the Boundary Commissions (also see Congress session, Jaipur, 291 Boundary Commissions), 25, 26 high command of, 13, 14, 15, 21, 25, 26, Anjuman Mufidul Islam, 177, 180, 199 29, 33, 38, 39, 42 Anjuman Tanzimul Momenin, 198, 204 Chittagong Hill Tracts and, 60 anti-blasphemy agitation (1956), 200, 204 Nagpur session of (1920), 11 Anushilan Samiti President of, 24, 33 CPI, and, 275, 276, 277, 278, 283, 285, representation of West and East Bengal 286, 287, 288, 289, 297, 299, 300, in, 233, 258 304, 305, 306 Tripuri Congress, 1939, 213 Noakhali, and, 276 332 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-87536-3 - The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947-1967 Joya Chatterji Index More information Index 333 Hindustan Socialist Republican Army, dominance of East Bengal, in, 216, and, 266, 277 217, 218 Arbitral Tribunal, 22 Congress Plan of, 31, 32, 33, 36, 37, 38, Arya Rashtra Sangha, 34, 50 39, 40, 41, 42, 44, 45, 46, 50, Assam, 4, 7, 48 52, 55 Attlee, Sir Clement Congress Scheme of, 31, 33, 34, 36, 38, 39 and the transfer of power in India, 13, 15 dissidents, and their plan for West and the June 3 Plan (also see June 3 Plan), 19 Bengal, 55 Austin, Granville, 62, 63, 66, 67, 70, 75, 78, Muslims and, 39–45 80, 87, 92, 96, 97, 98, 102 district representation, in, 235 Ayyar, A K, 67 Gandhians, in (also see Gandhi, M. K., Ghandians), 213, 214, 216, B 218, 219 Badruddoza, Syed, 166, 203, 204, 299 Hooghly group, 214, 218, 219, 221, 234 Bagchi, Amiya Kumar, 239, 240, 251 impact of partition on, 213–19 Bakarganj, 35, 45, 49, 50 official party, 24, 25, 30, 45, 50 and Radcliffe’s award, 59 President, 216, 217, 219 Bakr-Id, 178, 179 Provincial Congress Committee Banerjee, Upendranath, 46 (BPCC), 26, 214, 216, 218 Bangla Congress, 311 Radcliffe’s award and, 59–60 Bankura, 29, 31, 52 representation by population, in, 215 Bardoloi, Gopinath, 80 Separation Council and, 22 Barisal, 34, 35 Bengal famine (1943), 310, 311 Basu, Amar Krishna, 284 Bengal Legislative Assembly, 20, 21, 24, Basu, Jyoti, 198, 299, 302, 306, 308 276, 283 Bengal Boundary Commission, 25, 29, 30, Bengal Provincial Hindu Students’ 31, 32, 33, 36, 37, 38, 55 Federation, 262, 271, 282 Bengal castes, 212, 214, 218, 219, 230, 231, Bengal Provincial Muslim League, 212, 232, 238 221, 223 Brahmins, 108 Bengal Volunteers, 277, 284, 304, 307 Kayasthas, 108 bhadralok, 108, 112, 115, 146, 147, 157, 232 Mahishyas, 227, 233 rise of, 7–15 Marwaris, 231, 233 Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 200 Namasudras, 35, 108, 124, 184, 185 Bhattacharyya, Mahadev, 270 Rajbangshis, 48, 108 Bhowmick, Baidyanath, 305 Santals, 108 Bihar, 4, 9, 41, 46, 48, 52 untouchables, 227 States Reorganisation Committee and, 60 Vaidya, 233 Bihar [and Orissa], 303, 304, 305, 306 Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Birbhum, 29, 31, 52 Industry (BCCI), 232, 238, 241 Biswas, Justice C. C., 25, 27, 38 Bengal Congress, (also see West Bengal Bolshevik Party, 212 Congress) 3, 12, 14, 21, 22, 24, Bombay, 6, 79, 85, 106, 157, 161, 190, 29, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 239, 250 42, 44, 45, 46, 48, 49, 50 borders, 1, 2, 25, 26 Assembly Party of, 21, 24, 56 creation of new borders, 1, 2 ‘Big Five’, 217, 224 creation of new borders of West Bengal, Boundary Commission and, 26–39 26, 27–57 Central Coordination Committee and economic considerations and, 52–7 (also see Central Coordination Bose brothers, 13, 30 (also see Bose, Sarat Committee), 30, 31, 32, 33, 220 Chandra, and Bose, Subhas Commilla Abhoy Ashram group Chandra) (Councillor), 216 Bose, Nirmal Kumar, 157, 163, 189, 190 Congress organisation in Bengal Bose, Sarat Chandra, 214, 278, 290 by district, eve of partition, 215 strategy of cross-communal alliances of, 12 interim arrangements post-1947, 218 and the ‘United Bengal Plan’, 12, 14 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-87536-3 - The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947-1967 Joya Chatterji Index More information 334 Index Bose, Sarat Chandra (cont.) Chamber of Princes, 63 Socialist Republican Party, and, 278, Chatterjee, Amritalal, 291 284, 290, 303, 304, 308 Chatterjee, N. C., 264 Bose, Subhas Chandra (‘Netaji’), 213, 214, Chatterjee, S.P., 30,41,55,56 277, 278, 284, 302 projections for West Bengal by, 55–6 Muslim alliance, and 12 The partition of Bengal. A geographical Boundary Commission, 25, 26 study with maps and diagrams, Ambedkar, B R and, 25, 26 and 41, 56 assessors, 26 Chattopadhyaya, Satyendra Mohan, 230 Bengal Congress and, 26, 29 Chaudhuri, Pratul, 276, 277 Hindu Mahasabha, 24 Chittagong, 4 Radcliffe line, 21 Armoury Raid, 1930, 226 Sikhs, 26 port, 242 Burdwan, 29, 31, 49, 52 Chittagong Hill Tracts, 4 District Congress Committee, 46 Congress high command and, 60 Division, 49, 51 Radcliffe’s award and, 60 Burman, Mohini Mohan, 227 Chowdhury, Benoy, 300 Burrows, Sir Frederick, 21 Chowdhury, Sanat Kumar Roy, 269, 274 coal, 63, 82, 84, 85, 102 C Comintern, 278 Cabinet Mission, 1946 Communal Award (1932), 12, 217 May 16 Plan of, 14 (also see May 16 Plan, Gandhi and (also see Gandhi, M. K.), 12 Cabinet Mission Plan) Communist Party of India (CPI), 211, 220, Plan, 14, 70 260, 276, 280, 282 Calcutta, 6, 7, 9, 22, 24, 25, 30, 35, 42, 44, 1952 elections, and, 278, 296, 297 46, 51, 55, 161, 162, 163, 175, Algeria, liberation of, and, 299 190, 196 Bengal elections, 1952 and 1967, 276 Muslim political organisation in, 177 Burdwan District Minority Board, and, policing of, 23 266, 300 port, 42, 44 candidates, 296 Radcliffe’s award and, 59 core constituencies and refugee University of, 55 concentrations, and, 260, 263, Census of India, 272, 274, 289, 290, 299 1941, 30, 94, 95 East Bengal, and, 286 flawed (1941), 94 elite cadres, front organisers, 286 Central Coordination Committee (also see Muslim constituencies and, 263, 288, Bengal Congress above), 25, 30, 297, 302 33, 36, 41, 50, 55 Muslims, and, 266, 270, 271, 272, 280, Bengal and, 260, 261, 263, 267, 268, 290, 297, 299, 300, 301, 302 292, 302, 303 CPI (Marxist), 220 Bengal Congress and, 30, 31, 32, 33, 220 Bengal elections 1952, and, 278, 283, centre, 292, 293 emergency powers of, 75 Bengal elections, 1967, 276 powers of, 61, 62, 63, 67, 69, 70, 75, 79, CPI, Bengal 84, 100, 101 elections, and, 276 Chakmas, 108 Mass organisations, May Day 1943, Chakrabarti, Prafulla, 270, 286, 287, 291, and, 279 292, 294 Communists, 48, 49 Chakrabarty, Saroj, 214, 217, 219, 229, Congress, high command (also see All-India 230, 231, 234, 244, 245, 247, Congress Committee), 61, 62, 65, 248, 249, 250, 251, 255, 256, 67, 70, 91, 98 257, 258, 309 constituencies in Bengal Assembly, impact Chakravarty, Ambika, 304 of partition upon, 211, 212, 217, Chakravarty, Kumud Chandra, 263, 218, 226, 227, 234, 239, 240, 242, 301, 305 245, 247, 257 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-87536-3 - The Spoils of Partition: Bengal and India, 1947-1967 Joya Chatterji Index More information Index 335 Constituent Assembly of India, 20, 61, 64, and the ‘Swarajist’ challenge against 66, 67, 70, 71, 72, 74, 75, 78, 80, ‘no-changers’ (also see 84, 87, 88, 89, 95, 97, 99, 101, ‘no-changers’), 11 102, 261–75 Deshmukh Award, 246, 247 Bengal representation, 72 Dinajpur, 31, 44, 45, 46, 48 Bengal representatives’ letter to Prasad, Dinajpur town, 45 23 July 1947, 73, 76 West Dinajpur, 52 debates, 97 Draft Constitution of India, 80, 82, 89, 95, Drafting Committee, 79, 84, 89, 90, 91, 95 99, 100, 101 Expert Committee, Financial Provisions and West Bengal (whole section), 61–6 of the Constitution, 82, 84, 88 discussion by, 99 grouping, Muslim provinces, 67 Article 3 provincial boundaries, 101 groups, provinces, 64, 68, 69, 70, 97 West Bengal and, 99–100 (cf.
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