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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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    Partition of India, which divided Bengal along religious lines, established the borders of the Muslim-majority area of East Bengal. The province existed during...
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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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  • 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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    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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    All-Pakistan Awami Muslim League in 1952 and used the name All Pakistan Awami Muslim League. In the 1954 provincial election in Bengal, the party won 143...
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    Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (category All-India Muslim League politicians)
    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (category All-India Muslim League politicians)
    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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    All-India Muslim League (AIML), simply called the Muslim League, was a political party established in Dhaka in 1906 when some well-known Muslim politicians...
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  • Abul Mansur Ahmad (category Bangladeshi 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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    East Bengal was largely Muslim. The Bengal Provincial Muslim League was created to represent Bengali Muslims. The two Bengals were reunited in 1912 in...
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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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    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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    of an absolute majority. The second-largest party was the Bengal Provincial Muslim League (BPML), followed closely in third place by the Krishak Praja...
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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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    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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    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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  • All Bengal Muslim Student League from 1945 to 1947. As a student political leader, Azizur Rahman participated in the Bengal Provincial Muslim League and...
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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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  • of All India Muslim League. He was a member of the Bengal Provincial Muslim League working committee. In 1942, he was elected to the Bengal Constituent...
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    the provincial capital, with the Legislative Council and the High Court. Five commissioners acted under the Lieutenant Governor. The Eastern Bengal and...
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  • Fazlur Rahman (politician) (category All Pakistan Muslim League politicians)
    period, he was a part of the Bengal Provincial Muslim League's Working Committee as well as the All-India Muslim League's Central Committee. In 1937, he...
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    dictatorial. The East 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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