Q76
Indian National MovementCommunal Politics & Partition
Who was one of the advocates of 'United Sovereign Bengal'?
- a.H. S. Surhawardi
- b.Shyamaprasad Mukherjee
- c.Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
- d.None of the above
Answer: (A) H. S. Surhawardi
In 1947, Bengal Premier H. S. Suhrawardy, along with figures like Sarat Chandra Bose and Kiran Shankar Roy, floated the idea of an independent, undivided Bengal instead of its partition between India and Pakistan — a plan that ultimately failed to gain traction with either Congress or the League leadership.