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    The Bengal Provincial Muslim League (BPML) was the branch of the All India Muslim League in the British Indian province of Bengal. It was established...
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    Provincial Muslim League. As World War II intensified and Imperial Japan attacked Bengal from Burma, the provincial government grappled with the Bengal famine...
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    population. The All India Muslim League and Bengal Provincial Muslim League were formed to uphold the interests of Muslims amid the growth of Hindu nationalist...
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    Fazlul Huq became secretary of the Bengal Provincial Muslim League in 1913. After the First Partition of Bengal, Fazlul Huq attended the All India Muhammadan...
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    exceptions were Bengal, where the Congress was nevertheless the largest party, Punjab, Sindh, and Assam. The All-India Muslim League failed to form the...
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    Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (category All India Muslim League members)
    All-India Muslim League and became one of the leaders of the Bengal Provincial Muslim League (BPML). Suhrawardy was elected to the Bengal Legislative...
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    Partition of India, which divided Bengal along religious lines, established the borders of Muslim majority East Bengal. The province existed during the...
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    The All-India Muslim League (AIML) was a political party established in Dhaka in 1906 when some well-known Muslim politicians met the Viceroy of British...
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    almost certainly result in the partition of Bengal along religious lines, the Bengal provincial Muslim League leader Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy came up with...
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  • votes, with all the Muslim League ministers losing their seats. The Bengal Legislative Assembly had been elected as part of the provincial elections in 1946...
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    The East Pakistan Provincial Assembly, known as the East Bengal Legislative Assembly between 1947 and 1955, was the provincial legislature of East Pakistan...
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    The Muslim League's biggest success was in Bengal where out of 119 seats for Muslims, it won 113. The League reinforced its vote in the Muslim minority...
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    Jinnah Awami Muslim League prior to the provincial elections in 1951. In the Punjab provincial election in 1951, the Jinnah Awami Muslim League polled 18...
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    of an absolute majority. The second-largest party was the Bengal Provincial Muslim League (BPML), followed in third place by the Krishak Praja Party...
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    Khalji conquered Western and part of Northern Bengal, and established the first Muslim kingdom in Bengal. The Islamic Mamluk Sultanate, the Khalji dynasty...
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    Hindu zamindars was a major factor in the rise of the Bengal Provincial Muslim League and the All Bengal Tenants Association. Debt relief for tenants was pursued...
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  • East Bengal was largely Muslim. The Bengal Provincial Muslim League was created to represent Bengali Muslims. The two Bengals were joined back together...
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  • Abul Mansur Ahmad (category Bengali Muslims)
    alliance between the Bengal provincial Muslim League and his newly founded Forward Bloc. He persuaded Bose to meet the central Muslim League president Jinnah...
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    Abul Hashim (category Pakistan Movement activists from Bengal)
    family connections, got elected as the general secretary of the Bengal Provincial Muslim League in 1943. In his memoirs, Abul Hashim mentions that at the meeting...
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    across eastern Bengal during the war. In 1946, the Bengal Provincial Muslim League won the provincial election with the largest Muslim League mandate in British...
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    centuries. By the 14th century, Bengal was absorbed by Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent. An independent Bengal Sultanate was formed and became...
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    he became the secretary of the newly established East Bengal and Assam Provincial Muslim League, becoming president in 1909. He served as the chairman...
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    Muslims after Arabs. Bengali Muslims make up the majority of Bangladesh's citizens, and are the largest minority in the Indian states of West Bengal,...
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    situation deteriorated. Hindu-Muslim riots began, and the Muslim League demanded a separate constituent assembly for Muslims in India. On 3 June 1947 Lord...
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    Abdullah al Mahmood (category Bengal MLAs 1937–1945)
    undivided Bengal at the time. In 1942 he was elected assistant secretary of Bengal Provincial Muslim League working Committee and member of all India Muslim league...
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    authoritarian. The All Pakistan Awami Muslim League was founded in Dhaka, the capital of the Pakistani province of East Bengal, in 1949 by Bengali nationalists...
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    Nurul Amin (category Pakistan Movement activists from Bengal)
    district unit. In 1944, he was elected vice-president of the Bengal Provincial Muslim League.[citation needed] In 1945, Amin participated in the Indian...
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  • Minister of Bengal and a Muslim League leader, addressed a press conference in New Delhi outlining his opposition to the looming partition of Bengal under the...
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    Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (category Muslim socialists)
    activist in the province of Bengal during the final years of the British Raj. He was a member of the All India Muslim League. In 1949, Mujib was part of...
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    Congress Party and Swaraj Party; but constitutionalists in the Bengal Provincial Muslim League continued to be active members. Under the Government of India...
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