Assam Province also known asEastern Bengal and Assam (Assamese:অসম ও পূর্ববঙ্গ Bengali: পূর্ববঙ্গ ও অসম) was a province of British India, constituted of the eastern portion of the erstwhile province of Bengal and the Chief Commissioner's province of Assam. The new province came into being on 16 October 1905, following a partition of Bengal because of Bengali Muslims were in a backward situation. It was created to advance the muslim society. The Bengali Hindus protested against the partition of Bengal India that forced the British Raj to annul the partition in 1911. The short lived province was dissolved with the annulment and Assam was restored back to its status as a Chief Commissioner's province.
Famous quotes containing the words eastern and/or bengal:
“All the morning we had heard the sea roar on the eastern shore, which was several miles distant.... It was a very inspiriting sound to walk by, filling the whole air, that of the sea dashing against the land, heard several miles inland. Instead of having a dog to growl before your door, to have an Atlantic Ocean to growl for a whole Cape!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In Bengal to move at all
Is seldom, if ever, done,
But mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.”
—Noël Coward (1899–1973)