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The tremendous uphearal of popular feeling which has taken place in Bengal in consequence of the partition, will constitute a land mark in the history of our national progress. For the first time since British rule began, all sections of the Indian community, without distinction of caste and creed, have moved by a common impulse and without the stimulus of external pressure to act together in offering resistance to a common wrong. The most outstanding fact of the situation is that the public life of this country has received an accession of strength of great importance, and for this all India owes a deep debt of gratitude to Bengal (Congress Presidential Addresses: Vol.I; P-696)

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