Partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon is a landmark incident in Indian history. It was the worst and most hated aspect of Curzon’s administration. It was the partition of Bengal into two provinces of Bengal and Eastern Bengal and Assam in 1905. Supposedly, this was done to stimulate the growth of the undeveloped eastern region of Bengal. But documents not made public at the time show that one of the government’s main objects was “to split up and thereby weaken a solid body of opponents to our rule”. These opponents were the Hindus of Bengal, politically the most advanced section of the country. The new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam was specially constituted so that Muslims would outnumber Hindus. This deliberate setting of the community against the other had as its inevitable result -an increase in communal tension with slogans of Swaraj, Swadeshi, Boycott and National Education.