Two schoolgirls from this region shot a magistrate while pretending to start a swimming competition for the fitness club/militant group Jugantôr in 1931. An anti-Semitic freedom fighter from this region died in a plane crash in Taiwan while leading this region’s namesake Volunteers during World War II. Scots set up large jute mills in this region, whose “hill tracts” were major cotton producers. A. K. Fazlul Huq (“huck”) led this region (10[1])until a 1943 famine sparked by “denial policies” of boats and rice. This region’s Shôhid Minar commemorates a Language Movement (10[1])that influenced Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s Awami League. For 10 points, name this region that was partitioned by the eastern part of the Radcliffe Line in 1947 into a state led from Kolkata and a present-day country led from Dhaka. ■END■