Pakistan achieved independence in 1947. The areas that formed Pakistan included Bangladesh, which had been the richest state of Erstwhile Mughal India. The 23-year-old Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula put up a valiant resistance to the East India company but lost due to inexperience and the treachery of his infamous traitorous minister Mir Jafar. After the fall of Bengal in 1756, Robert Clive, accompanied by only five Englishmen, entered Bengal and became its imperial governor.
British policies impoverished Bengal, so much so that the 1943 famine witnessed people literally falling down and dying of starvation while walking up to the elite colonial English club of Bengal. It is something that deeply disturbed Maj General A OMitha-then a young officer in the Indian army-who later raised the illustrious SSG of the Pakistan Army. Culturally and financially rich Bengal became synonymous with poverty and hunger thanks to British machinations. Dr Muhammad Yunus later pioneered microfinance in the 1970s with his famous erstwhile Grameen Bank of Bangladesh.
As for the other constituents of present-day Pakistan, Punjab was identified as a martial race by the British and recruited in the army. It also supplied all of undivided India with food due to its agriculture.
Punjab got divided during the partition, and we got a quarter of the Punjab state–which before the partition had included present-day Indian states of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, and Himachal Pradesh. Bahawalpur in...
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