ABSTRACT
Congress oppression in the provinces under their rule became a recurring theme in the Muslim League propaganda in the interior villages of Eastern Bengal. The speakers and the President chose it as a common theme in their propaganda against the Congress and the Hindus as in Saratoll, police station Ullapara in Pabna district. League politicians took special care to create a rift among the two communities by trying to prevent participation of Muslims in Hindu social and cultural events. Music in Hindu processions passing mosques created serious tensions in Pirojpur in Bakergunj and Saidpur in Rangpur. The local administration was confronted with the question again and again as to why their intelligence system failed to provide them with alerts about the impending trouble in Dacca and why they failed to address the crisis even when it had actually erupted.
