Souradeep Banerjee, Department of Political Science, Temple University, Philadelphia.
Souradeep Banerjee, Department of Political Science, Temple University, Philadelphia.
The West Bengal government’s decision to observe 20 June as Paschimbanga Diwas from 2026 seeks to foreground the 1947 vote that led to the creation of West Bengal and revive a chapter of Bengal’s partition history often absent from mainstream narratives.
BY Ashwani Kumar 26 June 2026
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