"The imperialist motive behind this move was exposed by an English officer, Sir Henry Cotton, himself : ‘‘The object of the measure was to shatter the unity and to disintegrate the feelings of solidarity which are established in the province. It was no administrative reason that lay at the root of this scheme. It was part and parcel of Lord Curzon’s policy to enfeeble the growing power and to destroy the political tendencies of a patriotic spirit.’ The Statesman, the English-owned daily from Calcutta, also laid bare the true colour of the partition plan when it justified the measure editorially by asserting that it was intended “‘to foster in Eastern Bengal the growth of Mohammedan power which, it is hoped, will have the effect of keeping in check the rapidly growing strength of the Hindu community.’’In his letter to Brodrick in 1904, Curzon wrote : ‘If we are weak enough to yield to their clamour now, we shall not be able to dismember or reduce Bengal again; and you will be cementing and solidifying, on the eastern flank of India, a force almost formidable, and certain to be a source of increasing trouble in the future.’’"
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Sir H. Cotton, Statesman in Metha and Patwardhan, Communal Triangle, 64; Curzon in RC Majumdar Struggle for freedom vol XI 22-4. quoted from The Tragic Story of Partition (1982)
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