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17 unusual facts about Bengali people


Artcell

What started off as an underground band is now one of the most recognized mainstream bands in the Bengali metal music scene.

Charyapada

According to Bengali scholar Haraprasad Shastri (1853–1931), Charyapada is also the collection of the oldest verses written in pre-Modern Bengali.

Chhabi Biswas

That portrayal was culturally significant too as in the British Raj, enlightened Bengali used to combined both the hoary tradition and the Anglicised urbanity.

Culture of Tripura

In the 2001 census of India, Bengalis represented almost 70% of Tripura's population and the tribal population comprised 30% of Tripura's population.

Bengali people represents the largest non-tribal community of the state.

Dimapur

Besides the dominant Naga tribes who comprise about 50% of the city's population, other prominent groups include Dimasas, Bengalis, Assamese, Oriyas, Nepalese, Biharis, Marwaris, Punjabis and also Tamils and Keralites.

François Pyrard de Laval

In February 1607, the Frenchmen escaped from Malé by boat in the midst of chaos during a Bengali raid.

Haludaria

The name Haludaria is derived from "Haludar", the name of a young Bengali artist who provided the illustrations for Francis Day's book on the Ganges River fishes.

Kokrajhar

It is occupied by different communities and cultures, The main inhabitants are Koch Rajbongshis, Bodos, Nepali, Assamese, , Bengalis, Garo, Santalis and other communities too.

Lucy Locket

The song "Laal jhuti kakatua" (Bangla: লাল ঝুটি কাকাতুয়া), set to the "Yankee Doodle"/"Lucy Locket" melody, is a favourite among the Bengali people.

Moni Guha

Guha was born to a Bengali lower-middle-class family whose economic circumstances did not allow him to complete his school education.

Naharkatiya

The town is an amalgamation of many communities from different states of India, mainly Assamese, Bengali, Rajasthani, Bihari and many Marwari people reside in the town area.

Naima Jeffery

Naima was originally intended to be named Najma; named after one of Tony Holland's Bengali friends, the wife of Saeed (who was also the character name of Naima's on-screen husband).

Northern Evangelical Lutheran Church

Santals form the majority of church members, with Boro and Bengali people comprising most of the rest of the members.

Rebel Warrior

Kazi Nazrul was a Bengali poet, patriot and composer during the end of the colonial era in India who supported Indian unity.

Swatantra Tripura Committee

The Swatantra Tripura Committee organized a conference in Agartala on November 6, 1955, in which representatives from Halam, Kuki, Tripuri, Bengali Hindu and Muslim communities took part.

Williamson A. Sangma

With outbreak of violence between the Assamese speaking and Bengali speaking communities in the Assam plains, it further united the Hill parties and Hill state movement gained its momentum once again.


Abu Osman Chowdhury

When the news of Operation Searchlight reached him in the afternoon of 26 March, he revolted along with his fellow Bengali soldiers and raised the flag of Bangladesh at 4 Wing Quarter of Jessore Cantonment.

Aindrita Ray

Aindrita Ray was born as the youngest daughter into a Bengali family in Udaipur, Rajasthan, where she spent her childhood, before moving to Mumbai.

Ananda Shankar

Ananda Shankar (11 December 1942 – 26 March 1999) was a Bengali musician best known for fusing Western and Eastern musical styles.

Bangla TV

Bangla TV is a UK-based satellite television channel, established by the British Bangladeshis targeting the Bengali speaking people in the United Kingdom, and in Europe.

Chota Char Dham

Buoyed by "religious tourism" and by the rise of a conservative Hindu population compelled by sites that speak to the existence of an all-India Hindu culture, the Chota Char Dham has become an important destination for pilgrims from throughout South Asia and the diaspora, particularly Bengalis, Marwaris, Oriyas, Marathis, Gujaratis, Delhites and people from Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.

Churulia

It is the birthplace of Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam, and the resting place of his wife Pramila Devi.

City Lore

In response to requests of public school teachers with increasing Bengali and Bangladeshi populations, the organization designed artist residencies in Queens, funded by the United States Department of Education to teach traditional Bengali scroll painting.

Culture of Chennai

A regional hub since British times, other prominent communities are the Anglo Indian, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati and Marwari communities and people from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

Devi Mahatmya

Bengalis traditionally wake up at 4 in the morning on Mahalaya day to listen to Mahisasura Mardini in the voice of the Birendra Krishna Bhadra and the Pankaj Kumar Mullick on All India Radio, since 1932 as they recite hymns from the scriptures.

Digambar Mitra

Raja Digambar Mitra (1817 - 1879) was one of the leading Derozians and first Bengali Sheriff of Kolkata.

Gautam Deb

In the 2011 Assembly Election of West Bengal he filed his candidature from Dum Dum where he was defeated by Bratya Basu, the Bengali dramatist, director and actor who was a newcomer in politics.

Jalaluddin Mirza

Sahibzada Mīrzā Mu'hammad Jalāl ud-Dīn Mridha Sahib (Arabic, Urdu- جلال الدینہ محمد میرزا), better known as Jalaluddin Mirza (1898-1975), was a Bengali Indian aristocrat in the erstwhile British Empire who served as the fifth and last hereditary Zamindar of Natore from the House of Singra and Natore before it was abolished in 1951.

Kshitish Mohan Lahiri

His son Rajendra Nath Lahiri was a Bengali revolutionary.

Madhuri Bhattacharya

Born in Bangalore, but originally Bengali, Bhattacharya studied at the Army Public School and later went to Mount Carmel College to study psychology and Ramaiah College to study law.

Marichjhanpi

It is mostly remembered today for the incident in 1979 when the newly elected Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) government of West Bengal forcibly evicted thousands of Bengali refugees who had settled on the island.

Rabindranath Tagore's political views

Rabindranath Tagore's political views are relevant to his status as a Bengali poet, Brahmo philosopher, and cultural reformer.

Rampasha

Rampasha is famous for being the ancestral home of Dewan Ali Raja, a zamidar and a songwriter father of Hason Raja, a Bengali poet, mystic philosopher, and folksongs writer and composer who gained international recognition few years after his death, when Nobel Prize laureate, poet Rabindranath Tagore mentioned him in his lectures at Oxford University.

Satya Dharma

It was founded by Mohatma Gurunath Sengupta who was a great spiritual personality and a famous Bengali Sanskrit scholar and philosopher.

Valaikaapu

Similar ceremonies are held in other parts of India and in Pakistan, including among Bengali women, Marathi women (who call the ceremony Dohale Jevan डोहाळे जेवण), Punjabi women (who call it Godh-Bharai), Sindhi women, and Marwari women.