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Answer
The declared reason was administrative: Bengal was said to be too large to govern efficiently. The real motives were political. The government wished to weaken Bengal as the centre of the nationalist movement by dividing it, and it wished to divide Hindus and Muslims by creating a province with a Muslim majority in the east, so encouraging communal separation.
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Explanation
The partition was announced by Lord Curzon and took effect in October 1905.
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