Which colonial administrator made the following declaration about the

Which colonial administrator made the following declaration about the partition of Bengal in 1904 ? “Bengal united is a power. Bengal divided will pull in different ways. That is perfectly true and one of the merits of the scheme”

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Lord Curzon

H. H. Risley

Lord Minto

Sir Lancelot Hare

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The declaration about the strategic advantage of partitioning Bengal (“Bengal united is a power. Bengal divided will pull in different ways. That is perfectly true and one of the merits of the scheme”) was made by H. H. Risley.

This famous quote articulating the ‘divide and rule’ motivation behind the Partition of Bengal was made by Herbert Hope Risley, the Home Secretary to the Government of India under Lord Curzon, in a 1904 despatch justifying the partition plan.

Lord Curzon was the Viceroy who implemented the Partition of Bengal in 1905, but the specific quote is attributed to his Home Secretary, Risley. Lord Minto was Viceroy after Curzon. Sir Lancelot Hare was the Lieutenant-Governor of the newly created province of Eastern Bengal and Assam.

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