Chittaranjan Das and the Bengal Pact | Smita Mukerji |

This video is the eighteenth in the series of 'Military and Men, Mahasabha and Muslims, And Subhash Chandra Bose'.

ABOUT THE SERIES
The principles and ideals of the military and India's first nationalist military organisation, the Indian National Army, vis-á-vis a consideration of the constraints and choices of the key characters of the Indian nationalist movement in the crucial decades preceding India's independence.
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THIS VIDEO COVERS
The clauses of the Bengal Pact of 1923 have been used by Sarvesh Tiwari to label Chittaranjan Das as a “Muslim appeaser”. However, the provisions of the act must be assessed in the conditions of the period it was drawn up in when Pakistan had not yet been created. The act is to be seen not as an ideological proposition but as an instrument of cooperation to address the practical problem of dealing with the huge Muslim demography and settling a workable relationship with them, to minimise communal conflict, instead of precipitating the situation leading to a permanent partition of the land.
Most importantly, it was at a time when the power of the establishment, state power and apparatus, administration, and law enforcement, none of these were in the hands of the Hindus (unlike now.) These rested with the British who were intent on exploiting the communal divide and partitioning India, as they had done in other parts of the world, and with this intention encouraged fringe separatist parties like the Muslim League, the principalities, and caste groups, and created laws that intensified the divide. The parties that stood supposedly for Hindu communal interests actually played into their hands with their shortsighted and reactive politics. It is foolish and irresponsible to incite communal passions when you are not in a position to protect the people when riots break out. They could not, and did not, protect Hindus when the folly of partition played out in its full macabre manifestation. These are the ones referred to by Subhas Chandra Bose and other nationalist leaders as ‘communal’, as the present video explains.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
A management professional by occupation and a history lover by calling, Smita writes regularly on various aspects of Indian history and sociology which can be read at 'Hritambhara'.

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