The reasons for the divergent patterns of growth in East and West Bengal long before partition are rooted in the political economy of the two regions. After 1947. Calcutta and West Bengal which had become so dependent on the import of talent and enterprise from East Bengal suffered immeasurably with the wilting of industry and commerce.
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