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What Happens in 1971?
partition, what happens in 1971, overshadows partition, I think in the collective memory of now Bangladesh. And so again, it's the ripples of partition and the numbers there, you had 10 million refugees going from East Pakistan into India, hundreds of thousands of killed. But also to your point earlier, Punjabis and Bengal is what on earth do they have in common? Just maybe they have the religion, but they speak a completely different language, different culture, traditions. It was always a very uneasy alliance, even Jinnah called his new country, East and West, truncated moth-eaten territory. We had Aisha Jalal in a previous pod talking about exactly