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90 Muslim Province of Eastern Bengal, the Government of India wanted to reward the Muslims for their defiance of British authority۔The people of Bengal took up the challenge of Lord Curzon and started an agitation for cancellation of the Partition, and the same was ultimately done in 1911۔"1 لکھتے ہیں :- مسٹر ودیا دھر مہاجن مسلمانان ہند کی درد ناک صورت اور لرزہ خیز بد حالی کا ذکر کرتے ہوئے "The English were the successors of the Muslim rulers in India, and no wonder, on the eve of British expansion in this country, the Muslims occupied all places of profit, prestige and influence۔When that power was snatched away by the British, there was no love lost between the Muslims and the British۔The latter also followed a policy of crushing completely the Muslims۔According to Mohammad Norman, "The British people had decided that for the expansion of the new power and its continuance, the only source was to crush the Mussalmans and had deliberately adopted policies which had for their aim the economic ruin of Muslims and their intellectual stagnation and general degeneration۔" (Muslim India) Condition of Muslims before 1871 It is pointed out that the Permanent Settlement of Bengal "elevated the Hindu collectors who up to that time had held but unimportant posts, to the position of land- holders, gave them proprietary right in the soil and allowed them to accumulate wealth which would have gone to the