
Place
região histórica e geográfica na região leste do subcontinente indiano
Bengal é uma região geográfica, etnolinguística e historicamente geopolítica no Sul da Ásia, ao norte da Baía de Bengala. Ela é politicamente dividida entre o estado soberano de Bangladesh, o estado indiano de Bengala Ocidental e o distrito de Karimganj no estado indiano de Assam.
“What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow.”
“It is obviously an advantage in the sixteenth century Bengal to be a Moor, in as much as the Hindus daily become Moors to gain the favour of their rulers.”
“This is the history of the people who speak Bengali, covering both present-day Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal and other Bengali-speaking areas of the country from the earliest recorded times to 1947 when the Indian subcontinent was partitioned into India and Pakistan, and nearly two-thirds of undivided Bengal went to Pakistan.”
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