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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Dhakaiyas

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Indo-Aryan ethnocultural group viewed as the original inhabitants of Dhaka.

Indo-Aryan ethnocultural group viewed as the original inhabitants of Dhaka.

The Rajoshik sculpture, in front of the InterContinental Dhaka, displays a horse carriage and its driver.
A young boy flying a kite in the Shakrain festival.
Hakim Habibur Rahman was the writer of the celebrated Urdu book Dhaka, Panchas Baras Pahle - a detailed history of Old Dhaka and its people, culture and traditions.

Their history dates back to the Mughal period with the migration of Bengali cultivators and merchants to the city.

Pohela Baishakh celebration in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Pohela Boishakh

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First day of the Bengali calendar which is also the official calendar of Bangladesh.

First day of the Bengali calendar which is also the official calendar of Bangladesh.

Pohela Baishakh celebration in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Mughal Emperor Akbar began the celebration of Bengali New Year and officialized the Bengali calendar to ease the tax collection process.
Mangal Shobhajatra at Pohela Boishakh in Bangladesh. UNESCO recognises Mangal Shobhajatra as cultural heritage.
Students of Charukala (Fine Arts) Institute, Dhaka University preparing masks for Pohela Boishakh
Colorful celebration of Pohela Boishakh in Dhaka
Poila Baisakh Festive Meal
Children in Bangladesh carrying placards in Pohela Boishakh's rally
Children in Bangladesh carrying colorful placards in Pohela Boishakh's rally
Girls in Bangladesh wearing traditional saris and flower crowns at Pohela Boishakh celebration in Chittagong
Art competition at Pohela Boishakh celebration in Chittagong
Colorful show pieces in a Boishakhi fair stall
Pohela Boishakh Celebration by the Women Association, Abudhabi, UAE
A motif of sun at Mangal Shobhajatra procession in Pohela Boishakh celebration at Dhaka
The new year salutation at Ramna Park

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.

1978 map showing geographical distribution of the major Indo-Aryan languages. (Urdu is included under Hindi. Romani, Domari, and Lomavren are outside the scope of the map.) Dotted/striped areas indicate where multilingualism is common.

Indo-Aryan peoples

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Indo-Aryan peoples are a diverse collection of Indo-European peoples speaking Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian subcontinent.

Indo-Aryan peoples are a diverse collection of Indo-European peoples speaking Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian subcontinent.

1978 map showing geographical distribution of the major Indo-Aryan languages. (Urdu is included under Hindi. Romani, Domari, and Lomavren are outside the scope of the map.) Dotted/striped areas indicate where multilingualism is common.
Archaeological cultures associated with Indo-Iranian migrations (after EIEC). The Andronovo, BMAC and Yaz cultures have often been associated with Indo-Iranian migrations. The GGC, Cemetery H, Copper Hoard, OCP, and PGW cultures are candidates for cultures associated with Indo-Aryan migrations.

Bengali people

Ghoti people

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Ghoti, Pôshchim bôngiyô, are a social group native to the state of West Bengal, in India.

Ghoti, Pôshchim bôngiyô, are a social group native to the state of West Bengal, in India.

Among the Bengalis of India, the terms "Ghoti" and "Bangal" are used as social sub-groups indicating the ancestral origin of a family.

Bengal Subah

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The largest subdivision of the Mughal Empire (and later an independent state under the Nawabs of Bengal) encompassing much of the Bengal region, which includes modern Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, Indian state of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odissa between the 16th and 18th centuries.

The largest subdivision of the Mughal Empire (and later an independent state under the Nawabs of Bengal) encompassing much of the Bengal region, which includes modern Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, Indian state of Bihar, Jharkhand, Odissa between the 16th and 18th centuries.

Map of Bengal Subah
Dutch East India Company factory in Hugli-Chuchura, Bengal by Hendrik van Schuylenburgh (c. 1665)
The Mughal absorption of Bengal initially progressed during the reigns of the first two emperors Babur and Humayun
Akbar developed the modern Bengali calendar
Dhaka, the capital of Bengal, was named Jahangir Nagar in honor of the fourth Mughal monarch Jahangir
Robert Clive meets Mir Jafar at the Battle of Plassey in 1757
Shah Alam II granting Robert Clive the "Diwani rights of Bengal, Behar and Odisha" in return for the annexed territories of the Nawab of Awadh after the Battle of Buxar, on 12 August 1765 at the Benares.
Mobile artillery battries, loyal to the Nawab of Bengal.
Bengali curved roofs were copied by Mughal architects in other parts of the empire, such as in the Naulakha Pavilion in Lahore
Nimtoli Deuri, named after the neem tree, is now a property of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, situated in Dhaka, Bangladesh is now a Heritage Museum.
A riverside mosque in Mughal Dhaka
The Armenian church and cemetery in Dhaka
Maddison's estimates of global GDP, China and India being the most powerful until the 18th century.
A 3D reconstruction of the Bara Katra in modern-day Dhaka
A woman in Dhaka clad in fine Bengali muslin, 18th century
Munim Khan (seated, right), the first Viceroy of Mughal Bengal (1574–1575)
Man Singh I, the Rajput Viceroy of Bengal (1594–1606)
Shaista Khan, Viceroy (1664–1688)
Viceroy Muhammad Azam Shah (1678–1679), later Mughal Emperor
Viceroy Azim-us-Shan (1697–1712), later Mughal Emperor
Daud Khan receives a robe from Munim Khan
Bibi Mariam Cannon
Jahan Kosha Cannon
Battle of Chittagong in 1666 between the Mughals and Arakanese
Jamdani muslin is a legacy of Mughal Bengal
Murshidabad-style painting of a woman playing the sitar
Scroll painting of a Ghazi riding a Bengal tiger

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

Nazrul in Chittagong, 1926

Kazi Nazrul Islam

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Indian and later Bangladeshi poet, writer, musician, and is the national poet of Bangladesh.

Indian and later Bangladeshi poet, writer, musician, and is the national poet of Bangladesh.

Nazrul in Chittagong, 1926
Nazrul teaching music to his disciples
Young Nazrul in-front of Dalmadal Canon in Bishnupur, Bankura, 1920s
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Plaque in memory of Nazrul Islam in Hooghly Jail
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As per a wish expressed in the Nazrul Geeti "Mashjideri Pashe Amar Kobor Dio Bhai" (Bury me next to the mosque, brother), Nazrul is buried beside the Central Mosque of The Dhaka University
Nazrul Academy in Churulia, Asansol, West Bengal, India which is also the birthplace of Kazi Nazrul Islam.
Kazi Nazrul Islam on stamp of India
Nazrul Square in DC Hill Park in Chittagong City.

His writings greatly inspired Bengalis of East Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

Princess Sarvath in 2015 graduating from her honorary doctorate program

Princess Sarvath al-Hassan

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Jordanian royal and the wife of Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan.

Jordanian royal and the wife of Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan.

Princess Sarvath in 2015 graduating from her honorary doctorate program

Sarvath's Bengali mother, the Kolkata-born Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, was a writer and one of Pakistan's first two female members of Parliament.

Begum Rokeya

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The remains of Rokeya's childhood home in Pairaband, Rangpur, pictured in 2012.
Rokeya with her husband, Sakhawat Hossain (1898)
The book cover for Abarodhbasini (1931).
Tomb of Rokeya in the campus of Panihati Girls' High School, Sodepur.
Statue of Rokeya on the premises of Rokeya Hall, University of Dhaka

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (রোকেয়া সাখাওয়াত হোসেন; 9 December 1880 – 9 December 1932), commonly known as Begum Rokeya, was a prominent Bengali feminist thinker, writer, educator and political activist from British India (present day Bangladesh).

Kendriya Muslim Sahitya Sangsad, the leading body of Sylheti litterateurs, hosting the poet Qazi Nazrul Islam during his visit.

Sylhetis

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Indo-Aryan ethnocultural group that are associated with the Sylhet region in South Asia, specifically in northeast of Bengal presently divided between the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh, and the Karimganj district of Assam, India.

Indo-Aryan ethnocultural group that are associated with the Sylhet region in South Asia, specifically in northeast of Bengal presently divided between the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh, and the Karimganj district of Assam, India.

Kendriya Muslim Sahitya Sangsad, the leading body of Sylheti litterateurs, hosting the poet Qazi Nazrul Islam during his visit.
Front page of a Sylheti Nagari book titled Halat-un-Nabi, written in the mid-19th century by Sadeq Ali of Daulatpur, Longla, Moulvibazar
Bipin Chandra Pal was one of the main architects of the Swadeshi movement and played a crucial role in the Indian independence movement.
Rawshan Ara Bachchu is a Sylheti activist best known for her role in the Bengali language movement of 1952.
Muslim primary school students in Srimangal, Sylhet division.
Sylheti food stall at the Queens Night Market in New York City
Nurul Islam Nahid was the former Education Minister of Bangladesh, responsible for secondary, vocational and tertiary education in Bangladesh.
The ancient Rabir Bazar Jame Mosque in Kulaura was established by a Sylheti Shia woman for the Sunni community.
Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, an economist, diplomat, and Bengali Language Movement veteran who served as Bangladesh's 2nd Finance Minister.

Sylheti identity is associated mainly with a cultural, linguistic and a strong regional identity, while accompanied with a national (of either Bangladeshi or Indian) and a Bengali identity.

Bangladeshis in the Maldives

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Bangladeshis in the Maldives are a part of the Bangladeshi diaspora, consists people of Bangladeshi descent who have immigrated to or were born in another country.

Bangladeshis in the Maldives are a part of the Bangladeshi diaspora, consists people of Bangladeshi descent who have immigrated to or were born in another country.

The 14th-century Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta identified Sultan Salahuddin Salih as a Bengali and credited him for the establishment of a new dynasty in the Maldives including his son Omar I and a granddaughter, Khadijah.