The book provides an in-depth discussion of the move for United Independent Bengal in 1947 as initiated by the League Chief Minister H.S. Suhrawardy along with some Bengali Hindu leaders, and examines critically the attitude of Jinnah, the Congress High Command and the British towards the move. The study argues that the national variation of the Bengali Muslims could be subdued temporarily in the 1940s by the general Muslim fear of Hindu domination in united India and concludes that the emergence of Bangladesh as an independent state in 1971 may be regarded as the partial fulfillment of the dream in the 1940s for an independent Greater Bengal. The Postscript added to the revised edition gives a bird's eye view of the subsequent developments in the post-1947 Pakistani period up to 1971 showing how the pre-1947 foreshadowing of Bangladesh did turn into a reality during this phase.