A report on Bengal and Bengalis

Gauḍa (also known as Gaur, Gour, Lakhnauti, and Jannatabad) is a historic city of Bengal in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent, and one of the most prominent capitals of classical and medieval India, being the capital city of Bengal under several kingdoms.

Indeed, the term Gaudiya (of Gauda) became synonymous with Bengal and Bengalis.

Malda is called the gateway of North Bengal.

Bengalis about 91% including Bengali Muslims and Bengali Hindus form the majority of the district population.

Sometime in the 16th century CE, the first batch of Mizo crossed Tiau River and settled in Mizoram and they were called as Kukis by Bengalis.

After annexation by the British in the 1890s, northern part of Mizoram was administered as the Lushai Hills district of Assam, while southern Mizoram was part of Bengal.

The genocide in Bangladesh began on 25 March 1971 with the launch of Operation Searchlight, as the Pakistan government dominated by West Pakistan began a military crackdown on East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to suppress Bengali calls for self-determination.

From the White House tapes: "The President seems to be making sure that the distrusted State Department would not, on its own, condemn Yahya for killing Bengalis."

Bangladeshis (বাংলাদেশী ) are the citizens of Bangladesh, a South Asian country centered on the transnational historical region of Bengal along the eponymous bay.

The vast majority of Bangladeshis are ethnolingustically Bengalis, an Indo-Aryan people.

The nationalists saw the partition as a challenge to Indian nationalism and that it was deliberate attempt to divide Bengal on religious grounds, with Eastern part Muslims majority and western part for Hindu majority.

To appease Bengali sentiment, Bengal was reunited by Lord Hardinge in 1911, in response to the Swadeshi movement's riots in protest against the policy.

He was known as "Shāh-i-Bangālah" during his tenure, and the people living in this region were formally given the name of "Bengali".

His army sacked the temple of Swayambhunath and looted Kathmandu city for three days, returning to Bengal with plentiful spoils.

Arakan had close contact with Bengal, coming into full contact with it as it was expanding eastwards.

The Bengalis who came with him formed their own settlements in the region.

This festival is celebrated on 14 April in Bangladesh and 15 April in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, and Assam (Barak Valley) by Bengalis regardless of religious faith.

According to some sources, the festival was a tradition introduced in Bengal during the rule of Mughal Emperor Akbar to time the tax year to the harvest, and the Bangla year was therewith called Bangabda.

Subhas Bose was born into wealth and privilege in a large Bengali family in Orissa during the British Raj.

His mentor was Chittaranjan Das who was a spokesman for aggressive nationalism in Bengal.