Amartya Sen’s quote about Bengalee

“Those who were 'Bengalis' in the 1930s, in the 1940s politics turned them into confrontational Hindus or militant Muslims.”

— Amartya Sen

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Know Source and Context of this Quote :

Home in the World, A Memory: Amartya Sen makes the above comment in his memoir.

Book reviewed by: KP Fabian,

Distinguished Fellow, Symbiosis University. His book ‘The Arab Spring That Was and Wasn’t’ is about to be published.

Sen says that the two-nation theory “was first promulgated not by Jinnah, but by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar in his presidential address to the Hindu Mahasabha in 1937.”

In fact, Lala Lajpat Rai had proposed partition in 1925 and he was unusually accurate in predicting the boundaries of the future Dominion.