The Partition of Bengal A Geographical Study with Maps & Diagrams

The nature of these two curves shows that the rate of increase of one community slows 1. In the figure the abscissa represents the census years and the ordinate represents the logarithm of the number of Muslims in excess of Hindus per 10 000 of the total population. [...] The Mnlsims on the other hand predominate in all the districts of the Dacca and Chittagong divisions except in the Chittagong Hill Tractri where the tribes form the majority community and the Hindus outnumbered the Muslims in each census year till 1931. [...] 4 :- A comparative study of the numbers of the three communities per 10 000 population in the Chittagong Hill Tracts [In this figure the base line represents 6 000 members of the tribal community and this number is to be added to each column of the tribal community which extends upward as far as the base of the Muslim (white) column. [...] During the Muhammadan period the name Bengal was applied to that portion of the present Bengal which lies to the east of the Brahmaputra and south of the Padma. [...] This tract includes practically the whole of the Muslim portion of the Rajshahi division except in the neighbourhood of the proposed boundary line the whole of the Mymensingh district except a narrow fringe in the north and east the whole of the Tippera district except in the Brahmanbaria subdivision practically the whole of the districts of Noakhali and Chittagong and the greater part of the