United Bengal

United Bengal is a political Ideology of a Unified Bengali speaking Nation in South East Asia . The Ideology developed by Bengali Nationalist after the First Partition of Bengal in 1905 . The British Ruled Bengal Presidency was divided in Western Bengal and Eastern Bengal and Assam to weaken the Independence Movement, after much protest Bengal was reunited in 1911. The second attempt by British to partition the Bengal in communal lines was in 1947.

The United Bengal proposal was the bid made by Bengal Prime Minister Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and Nationalist Leader Sarat Chandra Bose to found a united and independent nation-state of Bengal. The proposal was floated as an alternative to the partition of Bengal on communal lines. The initiative failed due to British Diplomacy and communal conflict between Muslims and Hindus that eventually led to the second partition of Bengal.

As the Hindu-Muslim conflict escalated and the demand for a separate Muslim state of Pakistan became popular among Indian Muslims, the partition of India on communal lines was deemed inevitable by mid-1947. To prevent the inclusion of Hindu-majority districts of Punjab and Bengal in a Muslim Pakistan, the Indian National Congress and the Hindu Mahasabha sought the partition of these provinces on communal lines. Bengali nationalists such as Sarat Chandra Bose, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Kiran Shankar Roy, Abul Hashim, Satya Ranjan Bakshi and Fazlul Qadir Chaudhry sought to counter partition proposals with the demand for a united and independent state of Bengal. In a press statement on 27 April 1947 Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy said

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