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UGC NET Jan 2026 Political Science
The 'United Sovereign Bengal' (1947) proposal was advocated by-
AChittranjan Das
BAbul Hashim ✓ Correct
CBhulabhai Desai
DSikandar Hayat Khan
Correct answer: (B) Abul Hashim — The United Sovereign Bengal proposal of 1947 was advocated by Abul Hashim, which is option (2).
Explanation
★The United Sovereign Bengal proposal of 1947 was advocated by Abul Hashim, which is option (2).
★Abul Hashim was a prominent leader of the Bengal Provincial Muslim League.
★The proposal suggested the creation of an independent and sovereign Bengal at the time of partition.
★It argued for keeping East Bengal and West Bengal together as a single, undivided sovereign state rather than splitting them.
★The plan envisaged a united Bengal that would be neither part of India nor part of Pakistan.
★The scheme was associated with Sarat Chandra Bose on the Hindu side and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy among the Muslim League leaders.
★Abul Hashim, as the secretary of the Bengal Muslim League, was one of the chief architects of the idea.
★The proposal ultimately failed, and Bengal was partitioned in 1947 into West Bengal in India and East Bengal in Pakistan.
★East Bengal later became East Pakistan and, after 1971, the independent nation of Bangladesh.
★The option Chittaranjan Das is wrong, since he was an earlier Bengal Congress leader who had died in 1925, long before 1947.
★The option Bhulabhai Desai is wrong, since he was a Congress leader known for the Desai Liaquat Pact and the INA defence, not this Bengal scheme.
★The option Sikandar Hayat Khan is wrong, since he was a Unionist Party leader of Punjab, not associated with united Bengal.
★The united Bengal idea reflected the fear that partition would divide a shared Bengali language and culture.
★Its failure marked the triumph of the demand for partition along religious lines in eastern India.
★For NET, attach the United Sovereign Bengal proposal of 1947 to Abul Hashim, along with Sarat Chandra Bose and Suhrawardy.
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