Explanation

• The unification of bengal in 1911 brought back the haunting reality to Muslims that, while not a separate motherland frozen in two Nation Theory, they might be subject to the tyranny of the majority, in enlightenment thinker John Stuart Mill’s phrasing,72 as a result of the Muslims would be too spread and too few in variety across the landmass to gift their positions in an exceedingly megastate that might swallow them as minorities.