Photo: WIKIMEDIA COMMONSIn the weeks following the vivisection of the country, the masses paid the price“What have I done?”The words escaped Mohammad Ali Jinnah only days into the partition of India in August 1947. Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, prime minister of Bengal and a staunch Muslim Leaguer, was already planning a showdown with the Congress on the partition issue. Suhrawardy, clearly abdicating his role as prime minister of all Bengalis, Hindu and Muslim, decreed a holiday on August 16. But, of course, Partition was such a dire inevitability that even some Hindu figures began rooting for it at a point. They had already established themselves as members who had come to partition the country.

Source: Dhaka Tribune August 05, 2020 11:26 UTC