Islam in Bangladesh
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Islam is the largest and the state religion of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. According to the 2022 census, Bangladesh had a population of about 150 million Muslims, or 91.04% of its total popul
Baitul Mukarram, the national mosque of Bangladesh
President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman with Mufti Mahmud.
Kakrail Mosque, Dhaka. The Tablighi Jamaat movement in Bangladesh is mostly based here.
Shah Jalal Mazar at Sylhet
Partition of Bengal (1947)
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The Partition of Bengal in 1947, also known as the Second Partition of Bengal, part of the Partition of India, divided the British Indian Bengal Province along the Radcliffe Line between the Dominion
Religious distribution of Bengal - 1941 Census of India, the basis for the partition (by CIA:1981)
Louis Mountbatten discusses the partition plan with Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohammad Ali Jinnah
Entrance to the Legislative Assembly in Kolkata (Calcutta)
H. S. Suhrawardy, the last Prime Minister of Bengal, urged a separate independent status for the whole province