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During the Partition of India the entire Punjabi Muslim community migrated across the new border to Pakistan, but in Bengal a large number of Muslims remained in India’s West Bengal and a large number of Hindus remained in East Pakistan (Bangladesh today) — why?

by /u/[deleted] in /r/AskHistorians

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