Poem from Tagore & Gita . ix A Note on the spelling, transliteration and terminology used in this book and on Bengali proper names xi Foreword .. xiii Acknowledgments xv Preface ..- .. xix 1. The Background : Pre-Partition Bengali Society.. 1 2. The Countdown : Bengal Between The Two Partitions, 1905-1947 37 3. The Three Horrors of the Forties: Famine, Calcutta and Noakhali 81 4. Partition, At Last 141 5. 1947-49 : The Push Begins, Not So Gently 171 6. Push Comes To Shove : The Great Pogrom of 1950 191 7. The Nehru-Liaquat Pact and other Whitewashing Jobs 227 8 . The Steady, Ungentle Squeeze, 1950-1964. 249 9. Hazratbal and Thereafter, 1964-1971269 10. The Gory Climax : The Holocaust of 1971 283 11. Blowing Hot And Cold: Hindus in Bangladesh, 1971-2001.. 315 12. New Millenium, New Torment : The Pogrom of 2001onwards 353 13. An Eerie Silence: the Meaning of the word 'Secular'.. 375 14. A very brief Digression on Gujarat and Kashmir.. 437 15. Now What? 447 Appendix A : Speech by Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee on 19th April 1950 in the Indian Parliament following his Resignation from the Indian Cabinet..457 Appendix B : Letter of Resignation dated 8th October 1950 of Jogendra Nath Mandal from the Pakistani Cabinet..469 Appendix C : Letter dated August 15, 2005 from Sachi G.Dastidar, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Probini Foundation Inc. to Biman Bose, Politburo Member, Communist Party of India (Marxist)..,.. 493 Bibliography .. 497 List of Persons Interviewed .. 505 Index ..- 509