Partition of Bengal

The province of Bemgal included not only West Bengal and East Bengal (now Bangladesh) but also Bihar and Orissa. In the year 1905 , Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, partitioned the province of Bengal . Curzon claimed that this was done to improve administrative efficiency . But if administrative reason alone had been the reason for the partition , Bihar and Orissa could have been made in to a separate province and Bengal kept intact. The partition was actually a deliberate attempt by the British to crush the nationalist feelings in Bengal by dividing the province on the basis of religion -East Bengal with a huge population of Muslims and West Bengal inhabited mainly by Hindus. The people of Bengal strongly resented the partition.