The port city of Chittagong became the main sea gateway of this British Indian province through the Assam Bengal Railway, and the town of Shillong was used as its summer capital. Which short-lived early 1900s region, created in 1905 and shut down in 1912, was it?

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Eastern Bengal and Assam. Eastern Bengal and Assam was created by Lord Curzon's controversial 1905 Partition of Bengal, which split mostly-Hindu western districts from mostly-Muslim eastern districts. Chittagong became the province's main sea gateway through the Assam Bengal Railway, and Shillong served as its summer capital. Big swadeshi protests led to it being cancelled in 1912.