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Governor of East Bengal
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Governor of East Pakistan.
Governor's Rule 1954
Iskander Mirza was appointed as the governor of East Bengal to oversee the transition to direct central control. Mirza, a senior civil servant and former Defense Secretary, was appointed Governor of East Bengal. Mirza, who had prior administrative experience in Bengal and born in Murshidabad, Bengal, was chosen strategically to mitigate perceptions of outsider imposition. He was urgently recalled from medical treatment in London to assume the role despite protests from his doctors.