A report on West Bengal, Bengalis and Malda district

The ancient political divisions of the Ganges delta.

Coin of the King Shashanka, who created the first separate political entity in Bengal, called the Gauda Kingdom

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

The Pala Empire was an imperial power during the Late Classical period on the Indian subcontinent, which originated in the region of Bengal.

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

Early 19th century lithograph of the Muslim ruins of Dakhil Darwaza at Gour

Firoz Minar at Gauḍa was built during the Bengal Sultanate.

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.

Debipur Haribasar Radhakrishna Mandir (Debipur, Ratua1, Malda)

Subhas Chandra Bose, he was a leading freedom fighter of India

15th-century Portuguese painting of "Bengalis".

The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.

The Bengali artillery at the Battle of Plassey in 1757.

Many areas remain flooded during the heavy rains brought by a monsoon.

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

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

A hut in a village in the Hooghly district

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

The Grand Hotel in Kolkata. Tourism, especially from Bangladesh, is an important part of West Bengal's economy.

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

Freshly sown saplings of rice in a paddy; in the background are stacks of jute sticks.

Dean Mahomed is credited for introducing shampoo to the Europeans.

Satyajit Ray, a pioneer in Bengali cinema along with Ravi Sankar.

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

Panchchura Temple in Bishnupur, one of the older examples of the terracotta arts of India.

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

Jamdani Sari of Bangladesh is very popular in West Bengal.

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

Salt Lake Stadium / Vivekananda Yuva Bharati Krirangan, Kolkata

Bengali schoolboys in the port city of Chittagong.

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport is a hub for flights to and from Bangladesh, East Asia, Nepal, Bhutan and north-east India.

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

Kolkata Metro, India's first metro rail system

University of Calcutta, the oldest public university of India.

A Bengali man sporting a simple black sherwani.

The front entrance to the academic block of NUJS, Kolkata.

Artistes from Purulia district of West Bengal performs Chhau dance

Prajna Bhavan, housing the School of Mathematical Sciences and School of RKMVU.

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.

A Bengali groom partaking in a supplication during his wedding.

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

A sculpture honoring Fazlur Khan at the Willis Tower

A lathi khela event taking place in Tangail.

A Nouka Baich competition taking place in the monsoon season.

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.

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.

Malda district, also spelt Maldah or Maldaha (,, often ), is a district in West Bengal, India.

- Malda district

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's main ethnic group are the Bengalis, with the Bengali Hindus forming the demographic majority.

- West Bengal

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

- Malda district

In West Bengal, Bengali Muslims form a 66.88% majority in Murshidabad district, the former seat of the Shia Nawabs of Bengal, a 51.27% majority in Malda, which contains the erstwhile capitals of the Sunni Bengal Sultanate, and they also number over 5,487,759 in the 24 Parganas.

- Bengalis

Native Khortha speakers are found in Malda district.

- West Bengal

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Bengal

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On a clear day, the snowy peaks of the Himalayas in Nepal and Sikkim can be seen from northern Bangladesh and Darjeeling district of West Bengal

A 2015 census of Sundarbans Bengal tigers found 106 in Bangladesh and 76 in West Bengal.

Inscriptions on the Adina Mosque proclaim the builder Sikandar Shah as "the wisest, the most just, the most perfect and most liberal of the Sultans of Arabia, Persia and India."

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

The Battle of Plassey in 1757 ushered British rule

The former royal palace of Hill Tippera in Agartala

Shaheed Minar in Dhaka commemorates the 1952 Language Movement

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman led Bengali's decade long independence struggle including the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971

Bangabhaban (the House of Bengal) is the official residence of the president of Bangladesh

Writers' Building, the official seat of the Government of West Bengal

Biman Bangladesh Airlines is the largest airline based in the Bengal region

New Mooring Terminal, Port of Chittagong

The strategically important city of Chittagong is home to the busiest port on the Bay of Bengal

A silver coin with Proto-Bengali script, 9th century

Rabindranath Tagore, known as the Bengali Shakespeare, being hosted at the Parliament of Iran in the 1930s

Bangladeshi paintings on sale at an art gallery in Dhaka

Bungalows originated from Bengali architecture

A sculpture on Fazlur Rahman Khan at the Sears Tower in the United States

A Baul musician. The Baul ballads of Bengal are classified by UNESCO as humanity's intangible cultural heritage

A mustard and date palm farm in West Bengal

Kanchenjunga from Singalila National Park, West Bengal

Gangaridai in Ptolemy's map, 1st century

At its greatest extent, the Bengal Sultanate's realm and protectorates stretched from Jaunpur in North India in the west to Tripura and Arakan in the east

Colonial Eastern Bengal and Assam, early 20th century

Flag of the Bengal Subah (15-18th Century)

Flag of Bengal Presidency, under British rule

Flag of Bangladesh during Bangladesh Liberation War and after

Bengal ( বাংলা/বঙ্গ, ) is a geopolitical, cultural and historical region in South Asia, specifically in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal, predominantly covering present-day Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.

The predominant ethnolinguistic group is the Bengali people, who speak the Indo-Aryan language of Bengali.

Politically, West Bengal's part comprises Jalpaiguri Division (Alipurduar, Cooch Behar, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, North Dinajpur, South Dinajpur and Malda) together and Bihar's parts include Kishanganj district.

Bengali Hindus

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Devi Durga Sculpture by Sandalwood. Found in Murshidabad, West Bengal. Now kept in Indian Museum, Kolkata.

Dancing Ganesha sculpture from North Bengal, 11th century CE, Asian Art Museum of Berlin (Dahlem).

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the founder of Gaudiya Vaishnavism

Swami Vivekananda was a leading figure of the Bengal Renaissance Vivekananda at the Parliament of the World's Religions (1893)

Signature dish of Bengali: Fish And Rice.

Savitri-Satyavan story on Kalighat Painting, 3rd quarter of the 19th century.

Durga Puja, the largest festival of Bengali Hindus

Rath Yatra at Dhamrai in Dhaka district, Bangladesh

The Bengali Hindu diaspora celebrate Durga Puja all over the world.

Ichhai Ghosher Deul at Gourangapur in Paschim Bardhaman, West Bengal. (India)

Dhakeshwari Temple in Dhaka. (Bangladesh)

Baro-chala Buro Shiva temple at Jalshara in Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal. (India)

Devi Manasa with her husband Jaratkaru & son Astik flanked by Nagas, 11th century Pala period statue from Bengal

Bengali Hindus (বাঙ্গালী হিন্দু/বাঙালি হিন্দু) are an ethnoreligious population who make up the majority in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Jharkhand, and Assam's Barak Valley region.

In India, they tend to identify themselves as Bengalis while in Bangladesh they tend to identify themselves as Hindus.

However, some Bengali Muslim majority districts such as Murshidabad and Malda were handed to India.

Clockwise from top: Lukachori Gateway, Dakhil Darwaza, Firoz Minar, Qadam Rasool Mosque, Choto Sona Mosque, Mughal Tahakhana, Darasbari Mosque, Gauda pillar, Lattan Mosque, Baro Shona Masjid, Ballal Bati

Gauḍa (city)

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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.

Part of a foundation inscription in the name of Sultan Yusufshah, 1477 AD, British Museum.

Another inscription from the site in the British Museum 'collected' by Captain William Francklin

The Kotwali Gate marks the border between Bangladesh and India.

Gravestones resembling the Tomb of Cyrus

The ruins of this former city now straddle the international border and are divided between the Malda district of West Bengal and Chapai Nawabganj District of Rajshahi Division.

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