What Attlee was speaking about was a plan to have not two but three successor states to British India: India, Pakistan and Bengal. British Bengal roughly consisted of modern-day Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. Since 1937, ever since democratic government had been introduced in the provinces of British India, Muslim-majority Bengal had seen Hindus out of power. On May 20, 1947, a plan for a United Bengal was thrashed out between Suhrawardy and Bose. Eventually, the United Bengal plan came a cropper.

Source: Dhaka Tribune January 07, 2019 03:56 UTC