DBWI: No Republic of Bengal?

Following World War II, independence in the Indian subcontinent was inevitable. However, some Bengali leaders, such as Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and Sarat Chandra Bose called for a United Bengal, which was to encompass Bengal and Assam. Jinnah and the Muslim League supported it, while the INC opposed it. However, the INC failed in their efforts to stop Bengal and Pakistan from becoming independent.

However, I was reading a book on Indian history and I found out that the Muslim League was planning on partitioning Bengal like what eventually happened to Punjab. Muslim Majority Bengal would go to Pakistan while Hindu Majority Bengal and Assam would go to India. What if the Bengali leaders failed in their efforts to create a Bengali nation, how would the politics of the Indian Subcontinent look today? Who would become the mediator in India-Pakistan peace talks as Bengal is IOTL*? How would Burmese politics go, seeing as they are conflicts between Bengal and Burma on the issue of the Rakhine State, and the fact that even wars were fought?
 
There is a weird POD for this, and its understandable that not even history geeks know the details of British rule in India and British aristocratic politics.

At any rate, a partition of Bengal had been promoted within the Indian Civil Service and in 1903 was set to go and had the support of the Viceroy of India at the time. But the British also tried one of those unprepared military expeditions (into Tibet, the Younghusband expedition) that met with disaster and the Viceroy, the Marquis of Curzon, was not reappointed in 1904 and pretty much everything he agreed to was under a cloud. The partition was postponed, and by the time the project was revived again in the 1920s the INC put themselves behind the anti-partition movement and this was a factor leading to indian independence. And by that time Bengal had developed a nationalism that transcended the Hindu -Muslim divide.

So you could get a partition of Bengal with the Younghusband expedition being a success, with the eastern Muslim portion eventually being attached to Pakistan. This seems somewhat ridiculous given the gap of a thousand miles between them, but you don't have Bengal as a country as an alternative and it does get Pakistan more heft.

The problem with this POD is the butterflies with Tibet, with Tibet as a British protectorate you don't get them as a crazy nuclear armed "rogue state" that keeps shooting missiles at its neighbors, and we may actually know which is the highest mountain in the Himalayas. Actually I think it would be an interesting timeline for someone with more time than I had to write up.
 
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