India, Dec. 28 -- Most geopolitical issues have historical faultlines. The partition of Bengal by the British in 1905 laid the initial basis of Bangladesh. Curzon announced the division of Bengal along religious lines, with East Bengal for Muslims and West Bengal for Hindus on 16 October 1905. It was again reunited in 1911 because Hindus opposed it as part of the British divide and rule policy. Muslims, led by Nawab Khwaja Sallimullah of Dhaka, supported the partition of Bengal. Post pouring in of refugees into India and the genocide unleashed by the Pakistan Army, the "Lightning War" in 1971 by the Indian armed forces, astute political and diplomatic will along with the Mukti Bahini carved out Bangladesh. The young nation state saw its f...