(a) the First World War when Indian troops were needed by the British and the partition was ended.
(b) King George V abrogated Curzon’s Act at the Royal Durbar in Delhi in 1911.
(c) Gandhiji launched his Civil Disobedience Movement.
(d) the Partition of India in 1947 when East Bengal became East Pakistan.
41. Answer: (b)
The British government’s decision to partition Bengal had been made public in December 1903. The idea was to have two provinces: Bengal comprising Western Bengal as well as the provinces of Bihar and Orissa and Eastern Bengal and Assam. Bengal retained Calcutta as its capital, while Dacca became the capital of Eastern Bengal.
Option (b) is correct: Bengal was officially partitioned on October 16, 1905, by Viceroy Curzon. King George V held a darbar in Calcutta in 1911 and announced the annulment of the Partition of Bengal mainly to curb the menace of revolutionary activities and to shift the capital of British India to Delhi.
