A report on Nagaland, Assam and Bengalis

The ancient political divisions of the Ganges delta.

A sketch of Angami Naga tribesman from 1875.

Map of Eastern Bengal and Assam during 1907–1909

Parts of the Charyapada, a collection of ancient Buddhist hymns which mention the Bengalis, in display at the Rajshahi College Library.

A British India 1940 map showing Nagaland and Kohima City as part of Assam.

A map of the British Indian Empire in 1909 during the partition of Bengal (1905–1911), showing British India in two shades of pink (coral and pale) and the princely states in yellow. The Assam Province (initially as the Province of Eastern Bengal and Assam) can be seen towards the north-eastern side of India.

Depiction of Gangaridai on a map by 11th-century polymath Ptolemy.

Showing a historical incident at Kanaklata Udyan, Tezpur

Atiśa is recognised as one of the greatest figures of classical Buddhism, having inspired Buddhist thought from Tibet to Sumatra.

Ghazi Pir is thought to have lived in the Sundarbans some time between the 12th to 13th century.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Naga people in Nagaland, December 2014

15th-century Portuguese painting of "Bengalis".

About a million Amur falcons roost in Nagaland. That is about 50 falcons per square kilometre.

Blooming of Kopou Orchid marks the beginning of the festive season of Bihu in Assam.

The Bengali artillery at the Battle of Plassey in 1757.

Kopou phool (Rhynchostylis retusa), a type of orchid, in bloom.

A painting by Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya displaying a syce of Bengal holding two carriage horses.

Blyth's tragopan or the grey-bellied tragopan

People gathered at Kamakhya Temple for the Ambubachi Mela

A Bengali woman in Dhaka clad in fine Bengali muslin, 18th century.

W.C. Bonnerjee, co-founder and first president of Indian National Congress.

Mokokchung is one of the most populated places in the northern part of Nagaland

Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, the co-founder and inaugural president of the Awami League.

The Catholic Cathedral in Kohima City. About 80% of Nagaland people are Baptists.

7th–8th century specimen of Assamese (Kamarupi) literature

Dean Mahomed is credited for introducing shampoo to the Europeans.

Large numbers of Bengalis have settled and established themselves in Banglatown.

1. Tinskia 2. Dibrugarh 3. Dhemaji 4. Charaideo 5. Sivasagar 6.Lakhimpur 7. Majuli 8. Jorhat 9. Biswanath 10. Golaghat 11. Karbi Anglong 12. Sonitpur 13. Nagaon 14. Hojai 15. Karbi Anglong West 16. Dima Hasao 17. Cachar 18. Hailakandi 19. Karimganj 20. Morigaon 21. Udalguri 22. Darrang 23. Kamrup Metro 24. Baksa 25. Nalbari 26. Kamrup 27. Barpeta 28. Chirang 29. Bongaigaon 30. Goalpara 31. Kokrajhar 32. Dhubri 33. South Salmara Mankachar 34. Bajali

I'tisam-ud-Din was the first educated Bengali and South Asian to have travelled to Europe.

Sumi Martyrs' Day observed for Sumi Warriors who died during Mukali Siege.

Regional dialects form one of the determiners to the social stratification of Bengalis.

Bengali schoolboys in the port city of Chittagong.

The National Highway passing through the Parakhowa forest

The image represent's Dimaraji proposed state map

A sculpture of the Nawab of Bengal's Royal Peacock Barge in Murshidabad.

A couple posing for a photograph during the festival in their traditional attire

A tea garden in Assam: tea is grown at elevations near sea level, giving it a malty sweetness and an earthy flavor, as opposed to the more floral aroma of highland (e.g. Darjeeling, Taiwanese) teas

A Bengali man sporting a simple black sherwani.

Assamese women busy planting paddy seedlings in their agricultural field in Pahukata village in the Nagaon district of Assam

Artistes from Purulia district of West Bengal performs Chhau dance

A group of 'Husori' for the occasion of Assamese Bohag Bihu in their traditional attire.

Satyajit Ray, eminent film director who has made Bengali films popular all over the world

Gitanjali intro featuring its author Rabindranath Tagore

The application of mehndi onto one's hand hosts a ceremony of itself during Bengali wedding seasons.

Girl in traditional Mekhela chador dress with a Dhol wrapped with Gamosa

A Bengali groom partaking in a supplication during his wedding.

A decorative Assamese Jaapi laid over a Gamosa

Qazi Azizul Haque is recognised for his contributions to the development of modern fingerprint biometrics, a discovery of worldwide importance.

Meghnad Saha, J C Bose, J C Ghosh, Snehamoy Dutt, S N Bose, D M Bose, N R Sen, J N Mukherjee, N C Nag

Mising girls dancing during Ali Ai Ligang (Spring Festival)

A sculpture honoring Fazlur Khan at the Willis Tower

Actors of Abinaswar Gosthi performs the play "Surjya Mandirot Surjyasta" directed by Dipok Borah

A lathi khela event taking place in Tangail.

A Nouka Baich competition taking place in the monsoon season.

An ethnic preparation of Ghost chili chicken curry of Assam

Mohammed Salim, the first South Asian footballer to play for a foreign club. Due to playing in bare feet, he is having them bandaged by Jimmy McMenemy in 1936.

Lakshminath Bezbaroa, one of the foremost figures of Assamese literature.

Cricketer Shakib Al Hasan is currently crowned the world's best all-rounder in all formats for ODI cricket, and one of the greatest of all times.

Imaginary portrait of Srimanta Sankardeva by Bishnu Prasad Rabha

School girls in the classroom, Lakhiganj High School, Assam

National Institute of Technology, Silchar

Jorhat Engineering College of Assam Science and Technology University

Statue of Bishnu Prasad Rabha, Jyoti Prasad Agarwala and Phani Sarma at District Library, Guwahati.

A folio from the Hastividyarnava manuscript

<center>A page of manuscript painting from Assam; The medieval painters used locally manufactured painting materials such as the colours of hangool and haital and papers manufactured from aloewood bark</center>

Bell metal made sorai and sophura are important parts of culture

It is bordered by the state of Arunachal Pradesh to the north, Assam to the west, Manipur to the south and the Sagaing Region of Myanmar to the east.

- Nagaland

The current population is divided between the independent country Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and parts of Assam, Meghalaya and Manipur.

- Bengalis

The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur to the east; Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram and Bangladesh to the south; and West Bengal to the west via the Siliguri Corridor, a 22 km wide strip of land that connects the state to the rest of India.

- Assam

Apart from Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Manipur, and Assam's Barak Valley, Bengali-majority populations also reside in India's union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, with significant populations in the Indian states of Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Nagaland and Uttarakhand as well as Nepal's Province No. 1.

- Bengalis

There are also sizable populations of non-tribal communities like Bengalis, Marwaris, Nepalis, Punjabis and others living mostly around Dimapur City.

- Nagaland

Durga Puja, a festival introduced and popularised by Bengalis, is widely celebrated across the state.

- Assam

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Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of South Asia.

Present-day distribution of Indo-European languages in Eurasia. Bengali belongs to easternmost spoken Indo-European language family

Indo- Iranian language family, Bengali marked yellow

The descent of proto-Gauda, the ancestor of the modern Bengali language, from the proto-Gauda-Kamarupa line of the proto-Magadhan(Magadhi Prakrit).

Silver coin of Maharaj Gaudeshwar Danujmardandev of Deva dynasty, circa 1417

Silver coin with proto-Bengali script, Harikela Kingdom, circa 9th–13th century

A mural with Bengali letters in Hamtramck-Detroit, United States

An example of handwritten Bengali. Part of a poem written in Bengali (and with its English translation below each Bengali paragraph) by Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore in 1926 in Hungary

An 1855 Dobhashi manuscript of Halat-un-Nabi written by Sadeq Ali using the Sylheti Nagri script.

A map of Bengal (and some districts of Assam and Jharkhand) which shows the dialects of the Bengali language.
Eastern Bengali Manbhumi dialect
Varendri dialect Rarhi dialect
Sundarbani dialect
Rajbanshi dialect/language*
Chittagonian dialect/language*
Sylheti dialect/language*
(those marked with an asterisk * are sometimes considered dialects or sometimes as separate languages)

Within India, Bengali is the official language of the states of West Bengal, Tripura and the Barak Valley region of the state of Assam.

It is the most widely spoken language in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal, and is spoken by significant populations in other states including Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha and Uttarakhand.

The Bengali Language Movement was a popular ethno-linguistic movement in the former East Bengal (today Bangladesh), which was a result of the strong linguistic consciousness of the Bengalis to gain and protect spoken and written Bengali's recognition as a state language of the then Dominion of Pakistan.