A report on Bengalis

The ancient political divisions of the Ganges delta.
Parts of the Charyapada, a collection of ancient Buddhist hymns which mention the Bengalis, in display at the Rajshahi College Library.
Depiction of Gangaridai on a map by 11th-century polymath Ptolemy.
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.
15th-century Portuguese painting of "Bengalis".
The Bengali artillery at the Battle of Plassey in 1757.
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.
W.C. Bonnerjee, co-founder and first president of Indian National Congress.
Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani, the co-founder and inaugural president of the Awami League.
Dean Mahomed is credited for introducing shampoo to the Europeans.
Large numbers of Bengalis have settled and established themselves in Banglatown.
I'tisam-ud-Din was the first educated Bengali and South Asian to have travelled to Europe.
Regional dialects form one of the determiners to the social stratification of Bengalis.
Bengali schoolboys in the port city of Chittagong.
Eid prayers in Dhaka.
Durga Puja in Kolkata.
Harvesting preparation in Bangladesh.
A sculpture of the Nawab of Bengal's Royal Peacock Barge in Murshidabad.
Traditional way of weaving Jamdani.
A Bengali man sporting a simple black sherwani.
Artistes from Purulia district of West Bengal performs Chhau dance
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.
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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.

Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia.

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The ancient political divisions of the Ganges delta.

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Rayerbazar killing field photographed immediately after the war started, showing bodies of Bengali nationalist intellectuals (Image courtesy: Rashid Talukdar, 1971)

1971 Bangladesh genocide

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Rayerbazar killing field photographed immediately after the war started, showing bodies of Bengali nationalist intellectuals (Image courtesy: Rashid Talukdar, 1971)
Rayerbazar killing field photographed immediately after the war started, showing bodies of Bengali nationalist intellectuals (Image courtesy: Rashid Talukdar, 1971)
Female students of Dacca university marching on Language Movement Day, 21 February 1953.
Human Remains and War Materiel from 1971 Genocide in Liberation War Museum
Pile of bones of those killed in the Bangladesh Genocide
President of Pakistan Yahya Khan with United States President Richard Nixon, 1970.
Memorial of clay of refugees of the Bangladesh genocide.
Demonstrators hold a candles for a commemoration of the Bangladesh genocide
Demonstrators hold torches for a commemoration of the Bangladesh genocide
2013 Shahbag protests demanding the death penalty for the war criminals of the 1971 war.

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.

Archdiocese of Calcutta

Bengali Christians

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Archdiocese of Calcutta
Archdiocese of Dhaka
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chittagong

Bengali Christians (বাঙালি খ্রিস্টান) are adherents of Christianity among the Bengali people.

Shah Jalal's grave in the Shah Jalal Dargah, Sylhet

Shah Jalal

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Celebrated Sufi figure of Bengal.

Celebrated Sufi figure of Bengal.

Shah Jalal's grave in the Shah Jalal Dargah, Sylhet
Shah Jalal's grave in the Shah Jalal Dargah, Sylhet
Shah Jalal Mazar Mosque
Tomb of Hazrat Shah Jalal in Sylhet
Shah Jalal's Masjid

According to this account, Shah Jalal was a Turkestan-born Bengali and a spiritual disciple of Ahmad Yasawi.

Bangladeshis in Malaysia

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The Bangladeshi Malaysians consists of people of full or partial Bangladeshi descent who were born in or immigrated to Malaysia.

The Bangladeshi Malaysians consists of people of full or partial Bangladeshi descent who were born in or immigrated to Malaysia.

Bengali people have long established in Malaysia, history record demonstrated that the traders from the Bay of Bengal had been involved in commercial activities in the Sultanate of Malacca in the 15th-16th century.

Map showing the result of the partition of Bengal in 1905. The western part (Bengal) gained parts of Orissa, the eastern part (Eastern Bengal and Assam) regained Assam, bordered by British Indian Bengal and Bihar, Nepal, Bhutan, British Burma and Tibet

Bengali nationalism

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Map showing the result of the partition of Bengal in 1905. The western part (Bengal) gained parts of Orissa, the eastern part (Eastern Bengal and Assam) regained Assam, bordered by British Indian Bengal and Bihar, Nepal, Bhutan, British Burma and Tibet
H. S. Suhrawardy, the Premier of Bengal who led demands for an independent Bengal in 1947
A map of Bengal, divided between east and west.
22 February rally after Janaja at Dhaka Medical College on Dhaka University road, Dhaka.
Nationalist flag of Bangladesh
Joy Bangla (জয় বাংলা; meaning Victory to Bengal) was the slogan and war cry of the Mukti Bahini also known as the Bengali Guerrilla Fighters that fought for the independence of East Bengal during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971."

Bengali nationalism (বাঙালি জাতীয়তাবাদ) is a form of nationalism that focuses on Bengalis as a singular nation.

Ali Sher Bengali

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Shaykh ʿAli Sher Bangālī (আলী শের বাঙ্গালী, ) was a 16th-century Bengali author, teacher and Sufi pir of the Shattari order.

Mizoram

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State in Northeast India, with Aizawl as its seat of government and capital city.

State in Northeast India, with Aizawl as its seat of government and capital city.

One of the many battles between British troops and British-aligned tribes of Mizoram against a Lusei clan in Mizoram. This sketch is by Lieutenant Cole in 1889 titled "Looshai expedition".
Tuirihiau falls
Neptunia oleracea
Solomon's Temple, Aizawl
Mizoram Assembly House
Mizoram Peace Accord was signed in June 1986. The Accord granted political freedoms by making Mizoram a full state of India, and included infrastructure provisions such as a High Court and establishment of Mizoram University (shown).
Districts of Mizoram
Aizawl The capital city of Mizoram
A paddy field in Zawlpui, Serchhip
Oil palm in Mamit
Mizoram produces over 7 million tonnes of Anthurium (shown), supplying the domestic market as well as exporting it to UAE, UK and Japan. The majority of producers and income earners from this business are Mizoram women.
A school campus in Mizoram
Lengpui Airport Building
Aizawl Theological College
Darkhuang, Zamluang or jamluang – a traditional musical instrument found in Mizoram.Other instruments include khuang (drum), dar (cymbals), as well as bamboo-based phenglawng, tuium and tawtawrawt.
Dance of Mizoram
Lammual Stadium
Kawpi Waterfall

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.

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.

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.

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
The Pala Empire
Maritime links of the Bengal Sultanate.
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
Choto Sona Mosque in 1808
The Kotwali Gate marks the border between Bangladesh and India.
Ruins at the ancient city of Gour, 1795
Darasbari Mosque
Chamkan Mosque
Khania Dighi Mosque
Dhani Chowk Mosque
Tantipara Mosque
Arabesque and terracotta
Gunmant Mosque
Chamkati Mosque
Do-chala tomb
Fading enamelled bricks on Gumti Gate
Gravestones resembling the Tomb of Cyrus
Baisgazi Wall (city wall)
Hide and Seek Doorway
Rohanpur Octagonal Tomb
Mughal viceregal lodge
Mughal Sufi shrine

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

The empire at its greatest extent in c. 1700 under Aurangzeb ((r. 1658 – 1707))

Mughal Empire

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Early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries.

Early-modern empire that controlled much of South Asia between the 16th and 19th centuries.

The empire at its greatest extent in c. 1700 under Aurangzeb ((r. 1658 – 1707))
Akbar holds a religious assembly of different faiths in the Ibadat Khana in Fatehpur Sikri.
Group portrait of Mughal rulers, from Babur to Aurangzeb, with the Mughal ancestor Timur seated in the middle. On the left: Shah Jahan, Akbar and Babur, with Abu Sa'id of Samarkand and Timur's son, Miran Shah. On the right: Aurangzeb, Jahangir and Humayun, and two of Timur's other offspring Umar Shaykh and Muhammad Sultan. Created c. 1707–12
Horsemen of the invading Maratha Empire
Shah Alam II on horseback
Portrait of Bahadur Shah II
Coin of Aurangzeb, minted in Kabul, dated 1691/2
Miniature painting - Portrait of an Old Mughal Courtier Wearing Muslin
Muslim Lady Reclining or An Indian Girl with a Hookah, painted in Dacca, 18th century
Ruins of the Great Caravanserai in Dhaka.
Ghulam Hamdani Mushafi, the poet first believed to have coined the name "Urdu" around 1780 AD for a language that went by a multiplicity of names before his time.
Mir Taqi Mir, an Urdu poet of the 18th century Mughal Empire
The Taj Mahal in the 1870s
Badshahi Mosque, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Buland Darwaza in Fatehpur Sikiri, Agra, India
Lalbagh Fort aerial view in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Shalimar Bagh in Srinagar, Kashmir, India
Illustration by the 17th-century Mughal artist Ustad Mansur
"Alexander Visits the Sage Plato in His Mountain Cave"; illustration by the 16th-century Indian artist Basawan, in a folio from a quintet of the 13th-century Indian poet Amir Khusrau Dihlavi
Folio from Farhang-i-Jahangiri, a Persian dictionary compiled during the Mughal era.
Mughal matchlock rifle, 16th century.
Mughal musketeer, 17th century.
The remnants of the empire in 1751

Bengali farmers rapidly learned techniques of mulberry cultivation and sericulture, establishing Bengal Subah as a major silk-producing region of the world.

Tripura

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State in northeastern India.

State in northeastern India.

Tripura Sundari Temple in Udaipur.
Rock-cut sculpture of Shiva at Unakoti
Neermahal Palace is the royal palace built by Bir Bikram Kishore Debbarman of the Kingdom of Tripura.
Queen Kanchan Prabha Devi who signed the instrument of accession to India as president of the Council of Regency.
Rice is grown on Tripura's alluvial plains, which include lungas, the narrow valleys that are found mainly in the west of the state.
Tripura Assembly
Tripura district map
Ujjayanta Palace, built in the 19th century as a replacement for a former royal palace destroyed in an earthquake, was used until 2011 as the meeting place of Tripura's State Legislative Assembly.
Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council, pictured, encompasses much of the state
Rice is the major crop in Tripura and accounts for 91 percent of the land under cultivation.
Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport
Agartala Railway Station
The border post between Bangladesh and India in Akhaura
Classrooms built of bamboo in a school. In 2010–11, Tripura had 4,455 schools run by the state government or private organisations. Instruction is mainly in English or Bengali.
Tripuri children preparing for a dance performance.
A Tripuri girl in her traditional attire
East Pakistan refugees (since Bangladesh was not formed yet) coming to Tripura during Bangladesh liberation war.
Durga Puja is the major festival of Tripura
A couple in traditional Tripuri costume.
Tripuri girls in traditional attire
Tripura girls in their traditional attire
Tripuri dance

According to the 2001 census of India, Bengalis represented almost 70 per cent of Tripura's population while the Tripuri population amounted to 30 per cent.