What were the initial programmes of the agitation of partition of Bengal
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The governor general is pleased to present the areas under the administration of the Chief Commissioner of Assam for the purposes of the Council of India Act 1861, ... for a province, for which the provisions of the Act that touches the legislation and the provisions of Fort St. George and Bombay The rules will be applicable for peace and good order of presidency and it will be directed that the province was called as Eastern Bengal and Assam province. Is known .... The governor general in the council is happy to specify the 16th day of October, 1905 as that period, the provision stated will be effective and the form of the number of 15th Councilors In which, lieutenant-governor can nominate them to help in making laws and regulations. The Council is more happy to announce and appoint the Governor General on the Constitution of the districts of Eastern Bengal and Assam, Dakka, Mayamsingh, Faridpur, Backgunj, Tipera, Nohali, Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tract, Rajshahi. , Dinajpur, Jalpaiguri, Rangpur, Bogra, Pabna and Malda, which are now part of the Bengal Division of the Presidency of Fort William, remain subject to the boundaries of that division. Mill will be closed, and will serve it and be within East Bengal and limitations of Lieutenant-Government of Assam province involved. "
The reason behind the officially declared division was that the Bengal province was too big to be administered by a governor and therefore it would be divided on administrative purpose. The real reason behind the division was political and not administrative. Muslims in Eastern Bengal were dominated by Hindus and West Bengal. Partition was another part of division and rule policy. From the letter dated February 2, 1905, on Karzan, the following excerpts from India's Foreign Secretary St. John Brodrich give an idea of his goal of dividing Bengal:
"Calcutta is the center from where the Congress party is tampered with in entire Bengal and in fact the whole of India, its best treadmaker and its most torn negotiators live here. The completeness of their machinery, and the atrocities which enable it They are really remarkable to exercise. They dominate public opinion in Calcutta; They affect the High Court; they are local They are scared of Rakr and sometimes they do not make serious impact on the Indian government, their entire activity is directed to make the directive. The agency is so powerful that they one day forced the weak government to As a result, any measure that will divide the Bengali speaking population, which will allow the independent centers of activity and influence to be enlarged; He will be successfully deployed as the center of intrigue; Deathton Calcutta, or it will weaken the influence of the lawyer class, who has the whole organization, I am nervous and warmly angry by them. The cry will be strong and very fierce, but one The native gentleman told me - 'always screams to my countrymen till one thing is resolved; So they accept it. "