The Push and Pull of the Agrarian Frontier in East Bengal

From the turn of the 20th century right around 1901 or thereabouts we experience what the greatest story of Bangladesh William and Kendall calls the closing of the agrarian frontier of East Bengal. The British Raj sees this as a great opportunity to put more areas of asam under various forms of agriculture thereby enabling them to draw more land revenue so they also enable these people to sort of comeSo there is a push and there is a pull because of which agricultural migrant labor from East Bengal majority of them Muslim speaking Bengalis come into those communities.