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.

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

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.

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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A traditional Bengali lunch, consisting of bhaat (rice), aloo bhaja (fried potato), begun bhaja (fried eggplant), dal (lentils), chingri machher malaikari (prawn), mutton, chatni, papad, and mishti.

Bengali cuisine

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Culinary style of Bengal, a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent encompassing Bangladesh and Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam's Barak Valley.

Khaashir Mangsho er Torkari – Traditional Bengali mutton curry

Traditional Mezban cooking in Chittagong, Bangladesh.

The First Grain in Mouth Ceremony for babies is a traditional Kolkatan tradition

Different utensils used in a Bengali household. Clockwise from left: korai, tawa, hari, tea pan and a dekchi or deg.

From left, 3 hatas, 3 khuntis and a jhanjri

A classical meat curry dish with potatoes served on a plate with flowery engravings. This style of plate is popular among all Bengalis.

Paan and supari are a typical meal concluder.

A traditional Bengali fish meal – rice with macher jhol (Literally translated to "Fish's gravy").

A softer style of khichuri is consumed in Sylhet.

Srimangal is famous for the Seven Color Tea

Lotar Shutki Shira (fermented fish curry)

Chicken tikka masala was said to have been invented by a British-Bengali chef from Sylhet.

Bhim Chandra Nag, one of the prestigious sweet shops in Kolkata, founded by Paran Chandra Nag in 1826 at Bowbazar.

It is this method that creates the fine, smooth modern "chhana" with high binding capacity – which is now the staple raw material for Bengali confectioners.

Gaye holud (গায়ে হলুদ lit: "yellow/turmeric on the body") or gatro horidra (গাত্র-হরিদ্রা) is a ceremony observed mostly in Bangladesh and in the Indian state of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam by all Bengalis regardless of their religion.

Satyendra Nath Bose

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Indian mathematician and physicist specializing in theoretical physics.

Velocity-distribution data of a gas of rubidium atoms, confirming the discovery of a new phase of matter, the Bose–Einstein condensate. Left: just before the appearance of a Bose–Einstein condensate. Center: just after the appearance of the condensate. Right: after further evaporation, leaving a sample of nearly pure condensate.

S N Bose with other scientists at Calcutta University

Bust of Satyendra Nath Bose which is placed in the garden of.

Being Bengali, he devoted significant time to promoting Bengali as a teaching language, translating scientific papers into it, and promoting the development of the region.