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716 relations: Abbasid Caliphate, Abhijit Banerjee, Aceh Sultanate, Adamjee Jute Mills, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Adina Mosque, Agartala, Age of Discovery, Ahsan Manzil, Akbar, Al-Andalus, Alaol, Alauddin Husain Shah, Alexander the Great, All-India Muslim League, Alstonia, Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri, Amar Sonar Bangla, Amartya Sen, Amitav Ghosh, Ancient Greece, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Anga, Apabhraṃśa, Aqaba, Arabs, Arakan, Areca nut, Arsenic contamination of groundwater, Asansol, Ashoke Sen, Asian Development Bank, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Assam, Assamese language, Association football, Atiśa, Atong language (Sino-Tibetan), Aurangzeb, Austrian East India Company, Austroasiatic languages, Awami League, Azad Hind, Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency, Bakarkhani, Bakhtiyar Khalji's Tibet campaign, Bangamata, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, Bangladesh Liberation War, ... Expand index (666 more) »
- Geography of Bangladesh
- Geography of South Asia
- Subdivisions of British India
Abbasid Caliphate
The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Abhijit Banerjee
Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (born 21 February 1961) is an Indian-born American economist who is currently the Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
See Bengal and Abhijit Banerjee
Aceh Sultanate
The Sultanate of Aceh, officially the Kingdom of Aceh Darussalam (Nanggroe Acèh Darussalam; Jawoë), was a sultanate centered in the modern-day Indonesian province of Aceh.
Adamjee Jute Mills
Adamjee Jute Mill was a jute mill in Bangladesh.
See Bengal and Adamjee Jute Mills
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (born 2 April 1956) is an Indian politician who served as the leader of the Indian National Congress in the 17th Lok Sabha and from 2019 to 2024 and the Member of Parliament from Berhampore from 1999 to 2024.
See Bengal and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
Adina Mosque
The Adina Mosque (N-WB-81) is a former mosque in Malda District, West Bengal, India.
Agartala
Agartala is the capital and the largest city of the Indian state of Tripura, situated on the banks of Haora/Saidra River, about east of the border with Bangladesh and about 2,499 km (1,552 mi) from the national capital, New Delhi.
Age of Discovery
The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration, was part of the early modern period and largely overlapping with the Age of Sail.
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Ahsan Manzil
Ahsan Manzil is a palace located in the Kumartoli area of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Akbar
Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (–), popularly known as Akbar the Great, and also as Akbar I, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605.
See Bengal and Akbar
Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.
Alaol
Syed Alaol (সৈয়দ আলাওল; 1607 – 1680) was a 17th-century poet of Bengal.
See Bengal and Alaol
Alauddin Husain Shah
Ala-ud-din Husain Shah (আলাউদ্দিন হোসেন শাহ (1493–1519) was an independent late medieval Sultan of Bengal, who founded the Hussain Shahi dynasty. He became the ruler of Bengal after assassinating the Abyssinian Sultan, Shams-ud-Din Muzaffar Shah, whom he had served under as wazir.
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Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon (Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon.
See Bengal and Alexander the Great
All-India Muslim League
The All-India Muslim League (AIML), simply called the Muslim League, was a political party established in Dhaka in 1906 when some well-known Muslim politicians met the Viceroy of India, Lord Minto, with the goal of securing Muslim interests in British India.
See Bengal and All-India Muslim League
Alstonia
Alstonia is a widespread genus of evergreen trees and shrubs, of the family Apocynaceae.
Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri
Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (14 September 1923 – 18 June 2005) was an Indian physicist, known for his research in general relativity and cosmology.
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Amar Sonar Bangla
"" (lit) is the national anthem of Bangladesh.
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Amartya Sen
Amartya Kumar Sen (born 1933) is an Indian economist and philosopher.
Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh (born 11 July 1956), Encyclopædia Britannica is an Indian writer.
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is a union territory of India.
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Anga
Anga was an ancient Indo-Aryan tribe of eastern India whose existence is attested during the Iron Age. Bengal and Anga are historical Indian regions.
See Bengal and Anga
Apabhraṃśa
Apabhraṃśa (अपभ्रंश,, Prakrit) is a term used by vaiyākaraṇāḥ (native grammarians) since Patañjali to refer to languages spoken in North India before the rise of the modern languages.
Aqaba
Aqaba (al-ʿAqaba) is the only coastal city in Jordan and the largest and most populous city on the Gulf of Aqaba.
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Arabs
The Arabs (عَرَب, DIN 31635:, Arabic pronunciation), also known as the Arab people (الشَّعْبَ الْعَرَبِيّ), are an ethnic group mainly inhabiting the Arab world in West Asia and North Africa.
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Arakan
Arakan is the historical geographical name of Rakhine State, Myanmar (formerly Burma). The region was called Arakan for centuries until the Burmese military junta changed its name in 1989. The people of the region were known as Arakanese. Arakan's first states can be traced to the 4th century. Arakan was one of the first Indianized kingdoms in Southeast Asia.
Areca nut
The areca nut or betel nut is the fruit of the areca palm (Areca catechu).
Arsenic contamination of groundwater
Arsenic contamination of groundwater is a form of groundwater pollution which is often due to naturally occurring high concentrations of arsenic in deeper levels of groundwater.
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Asansol
Asansol is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Ashoke Sen
Ashoke Sen FRS (born 1956) is an Indian theoretical physicist and distinguished professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bangalore.
Asian Development Bank
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established on 19 December 1966, which is headquartered in 6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong, Metro Manila 1550, Philippines.
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Asiatic Society of Bangladesh
The Asiatic Society of Bangladesh is a non political and non profit research organisation registered under both Society Act of 1864 and NGO Affairs Bureau, Government of Bangladesh.
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Assam
Assam is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.
See Bengal and Assam
Assamese language
Assamese or Asamiya (অসমীয়া) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam, where it is an official language.
See Bengal and Assamese language
Association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players each, who primarily use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch.
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Atiśa
Atīśa (c. 982–1054) was a Buddhist religious leader and master from Bengal.
See Bengal and Atiśa
Atong language (Sino-Tibetan)
A.tong is one of the Garo dialect Sino-Tibetan (or Tibeto-Burman) language which is also related to Koch, Rabha, Bodo other than Garo language.
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Aurangzeb
Muhi al-Din Muhammad (3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known as italics, was the sixth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707.
Austrian East India Company
Austrian East India Company (Österreichische Ostindien-Kompanie) is a catchall term referring to a series of Austrian trading companies based in Ostend and Trieste.
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Austroasiatic languages
The Austroasiatic languages are a large language family spoken throughout Mainland Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia.
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Awami League
The Bangladesh Awami League (বাংলাদেশ আওয়ামী লীগ), often simply called the Awami League, is one of the major political parties in Bangladesh.
Azad Hind
The Provisional Government of Free India or, more simply, Azad Hind, was a short-lived Japanese-controlled provisional government in India.
Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency
Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency (earlier known as Berhampore) is one of the 543 parliamentary constituencies in India.
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Bakarkhani
Bakarkhani or Baqarkhani or Bakorkhoni also known as bakarkhani roti, is a thick, spiced flat-bread that is part of the Mughlai cuisine.
Bakhtiyar Khalji's Tibet campaign
Bakhtiyar Khalji, the general of Qutubuddin Aibak, launched a campaign to invade Tibet in the 13th century.
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Bangamata
Baṅgamātā (বঙ্গমাতা), Bangla Maa (বাংলা মা), Mother Bengal or simply বাংলা/ Bangla, is a personification of Bengal created during the Bengali Renaissance and later adopted by the Bengali nationalists.
Bangladesh
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia.
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics
The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) also known by its Bengali name, বাংলাদেশ পরিসংখ্যান ব্যুরো is the centralized official body in Bangladesh for collecting statistics on demographics, the economy, and other facts about the country and disseminating the information.
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Bangladesh Liberation War
The Bangladesh Liberation War (মুক্তিযুদ্ধ), also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence and known as the Liberation War in Bangladesh, was an armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali nationalist and self-determination movement in East Pakistan, which resulted in the independence of Bangladesh.
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Bangladesh National Museum
The Bangladesh National Museum (translit), is the national museum of Bangladesh.
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Bangladesh Nationalist Party
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Dal, BNP or Nationalist Party) is a major political party in Bangladesh.
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Bangladesh–India border
The Bangladesh–India border, known locally as the Radcliffe line (IB), is an international border running between the republics of Bangladesh and India that demarcates the six divisions of Bangladesh and the Indian states. Bengal and Bangladesh–India border are geography of Bangladesh.
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Bangladesh–India relations
Bangladesh–India relations are the bilateral relations between the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Republic of India, both of which are South Asian neighbours.
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Bangladeshi art
Bangladeshi art is a form of visual arts that has been practiced throughout the land of what is now known as Bangladesh.
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Bangladeshi diaspora
The Bangladeshi diaspora (প্রবাসী বাংলাদেশী) are people of Bangladeshi birth, descent or origin who live outside of Bangladesh.
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Bangladeshi taka
The Bangladeshi taka (টাকা, sign: ৳, code: BDT, short form: Tk) is the currency of Bangladesh.
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Bangladeshis in the Middle East
Bangladeshis in the Middle East, form the largest part of the worldwide Bangladeshi diaspora.
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Banglapedia
Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh is the first Bangladeshi encyclopedia.
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (anglicized as Chatterjee) (26 or 27 June 1838 – 8 April 1894) was an Indian novelist, poet, essayist and journalist.
See Bengal and Bankim Chandra Chatterjee
Bara Katra
Bara Katra (বড় কাটরা) is one of the oldest historical and architectural monuments in Dhaka.
Barak River
The Barak River or Barbakro flows through the states of Manipur, Mizoram and Assam in India.
Barak Valley
The Barak Valley is the southernmost region and administrative division of the Indian state of Assam.
Bardhaman
Bardhaman, officially Bardhaman Sadar, is a city and municipality in the state of West Bengal, India.
Barind Tract
Barind Tract (alternately called the Varendra Tract in English and Borendro Bhumi in Bengali) is the largest Pleistocene era physiographic unit in the Bengal Basin. Bengal and Barind Tract are geography of Bangladesh.
Barisal
Barisal (or; বরিশাল), officially known as Barishal, is a major city that lies on the banks of the Kirtankhola river in south-central Bangladesh.
Barisal Division
Barisal Division is one of the eight administrative divisions of Bangladesh.
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Baro-Bhuyan
The Baro-Bhuyans (or Baro-Bhuyan Raj; also Baro-Bhuians and Baro-Bhuiyans) were confederacies of soldier-landowners in Assam and Bengal in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period.
Battle of Plassey
The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the British East India Company, under the leadership of Robert Clive, over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies on 23 June 1757.
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Battle of Rajmahal
The Battle of Rajmahal (রাজমহলের যুদ্ধ) took place between the Mughal Empire and the Karrani Dynasty that ruled the Sultanate of Bengal in the 16th century.
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Battle of Trafalgar
The Battle of Trafalgar was a naval engagement that took place on 21 October 1805 between the British Royal Navy and the combined fleets of the French and Spanish Navies during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815).
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Baul
The Baul (বাউল) are a group of mystic minstrels of mixed elements of Sufism and Vaishnavism from different parts of Bangladesh and the neighboring Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam's Barak Valley and Meghalaya.
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Bawm people
The Bom, Bawm or Bawmzo (বম), are an ethnic community inhabiting the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh.
Bay of Bengal
The Bay of Bengal is the northeastern part of the Indian Ocean.
Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) is an international organisation of seven South Asian and Southeast Asian nations, housing 1.73 billion people and having a combined gross domestic product of US$5.2 trillion (2023).
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BBIN
The Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal (BBIN) Initiative is a subregional architecture of countries in Eastern South Asia, a subregion of South Asia.
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Begum Rokeya
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (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.
Benapole
Benapole (বেনাপোল) is a township in Sharsha Upazila in the Jessore District of Bangladesh.
Bengal Army
The Bengal Army was the army of the Bengal Presidency, one of the three presidencies of British India within the British Empire.
Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry
The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry is a non-governmental trade association and advocacy group based in West Bengal, India.
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Bengal famine of 1943
The Bengal famine of 1943 was a man-made famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II.
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Bengal Legislative Assembly
The Bengal Legislative Assembly was the largest legislature in British India, serving as the lower chamber of the legislature of Bengal (now Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal).
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Bengal Legislative Council
The Bengal Legislative Council (was the legislative council of Bengal Presidency (now Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal).
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Bengal National Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Bengal National Chamber of Commerce & Industry, established on 2 February 1887, is one of the oldest association of business organizations based in Kolkata, West Bengal.
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Bengal Presidency
The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, later the Bengal Province, was the largest of all three presidencies of British India during Company rule and later a province of India. Bengal and Bengal Presidency are historical Indian regions.
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Bengal Renaissance
The Bengal Renaissance (Bāṅlār Nôbôjāgôrôṇ), also known as the Bengali Renaissance, was a cultural, social, intellectual, and artistic movement that took place in the Bengal region of the British Raj, from the late 18th century to the early 20th century.
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Bengal School of Art
The Bengal School of Art, commonly referred as Bengal School, was an art movement and a style of Indian painting that originated in Bengal, primarily Kolkata and Shantiniketan, and flourished throughout the Indian subcontinent, during the British Raj in the early 20th century.
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Bengal Subah
The Bengal Subah, also referred to as Mughal Bengal, was the largest subdivision of the Mughal Empire encompassing much of the Bengal region, which includes modern-day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and some parts of the present-day Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha between the 16th and 18th centuries.
Bengal Sultanate
The Bengal Sultanate (Middle Bengali: শাহী বাঙ্গালা, Classical Persian:, Arabic) was a late medieval sultanate based in the Bengal region between the 14th and 16th century.
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Bengal tiger
The Bengal tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies and the nominate tiger subspecies.
Bengali alphabet
The Bengali script or Bangla alphabet (Bangla bôrṇômala, বেঙ্গলি ময়েক|Bengali mayek) is the alphabet used to write the Bengali language based on the Bengali-Assamese script, and has historically been used to write Sanskrit within Bengal.
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Bengali Buddhists
Bengali Buddhists (বাঙালি বৌদ্ধ) are a religious subgroup of the Bengalis who adhere to or practice the religion of Buddhism.
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Bengali calendars
The Bengali Calendar or Bangla Calendar (Baṅgābda), colloquially (Baṅgla Śon), is a solar calendar used in the Bengal region of the South Asia.
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Bengali Christians
Bengali Christians (বাঙালি খ্রিস্টান) are adherents of Christianity among the Bengali people.
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Bengali cuisine
Bengali cuisine is the culinary style of Bengal, that comprises Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam's Karimganj district.
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Bengali Hindus
Bengali Hindus (translit) are an ethnoreligious population who make up the majority in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Jharkhand, and Assam's Barak Valley region.
Bengali language
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.
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Bengali language movement
The Bengali language movement was a political movement in former East Bengal in 1952, advocating the recognition of the Bengali language as a co-lingua franca of the then-Dominion of Pakistan to allow its use in government affairs, the continuation of its use as a medium of education, its use in media, currency and stamps, and to maintain its writing in the Bengali script.
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Bengali literature
Bengali literature (Bangla Sahityô) denotes the body of writings in the Bengali language and which covers Old Bengali, Middle- Bengali and Modern Bengali with the changes through the passage of time and dynastic patronization or non-patronization.
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Bengali Muslims
Bengali Muslims (বাঙালি মুসলমান) are adherents of Islam who ethnically, linguistically and genealogically identify as Bengalis.
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Bengali nationalism
Bengali nationalism (বাঙালি জাতীয়তাবাদ) is a form of nationalism that focuses on Bengalis as a single ethnicity by rejecting imposition of other languages and cultures while promoting its own in Bengal.
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Bengali–Assamese languages
The Assamese-Bengali languages (also Gauda–Kamarupa languages) is a grouping of several languages in the eastern Indian subcontinent.
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Bengali–Assamese script
The Bengali–Assamese script, sometimes also known as Eastern Nagari, is an eastern Brahmic script, primarily used today for the Bengali and Assamese language spoken in eastern South Asia.
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Bengalis
Bengalis (বাঙ্গালী, বাঙালি), also rendered as endonym Bangali, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia.
Bengalis in Pakistan
Bengalis in Pakistan are ethnic Bengali people who had lived in either West Pakistan or East Pakistan prior to 1971 or live in present-day Pakistan.
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Benita Roy
Rajmata Benita Roy (born 18 August 1907, date of death unknown) was a Bangladeshi aristocrat, litterateur, diplomat and minister.
Berhampore
Berhampore, also known as Baharampur, is a city and a municipality in the state of West Bengal, India.
Bharat Mata
Bharat Mata (Mother India in English) is a national personification of India (Bharat) as a mother goddess.
Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is a political party in India and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress.
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Bhatiali
Bhatiali or bhatiyali (ভাটিয়ালি) is a form of folk music, sung in both Bangladesh and West Bengal, India.
Bhawaiya
Bhawaiya is a musical form or a popular folk music that originated in Northern Bengal, especially the Rangpur Division in Bangladesh, Cooch Behar district of West Bengal, India, and the undivided Goalpara district of Assam, India.
Bhawal National Park
Bhawal National Park (ভাওয়াল জাতীয় উদ্যান) is a nature reserve and national park of Bangladesh.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (12 September 1894 – 1 November 1950) was an Indian writer in the Bengali language.
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Bihar
Bihar is a state in Eastern India.
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Bihari languages
Bihari languages are a group of the Indo-Aryan languages.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity (or biological diversity) is the variety and variability of life on Earth.
Biodiversity hotspot
A biodiversity hotspot is a biogeographic region with significant levels of biodiversity that is threatened by human habitation.
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Biryani
Biryani is a mixed rice dish, mainly popular in South Asia and Iran.
Bishnupriya Manipuri
Bishnupriya Manipuri, also known as Bishnupriya Meitei or simply as Bishnupriya, is an Indo-Aryan lect belonging to the Bengali–Assamese linguistic sub-branch.
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Bishnupur, Bankura
Bishnupur is a city and a municipality and now it is District in the state of West Bengal, India.
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Body of water
A body of water or waterbody is any significant accumulation of water on the surface of Earth or another planet.
Bogra
Bogra (বগুড়া), officially known as Bogura, is a city located in Bogra District, Rajshahi Division, Bangladesh.
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Bohmong Circle
The Bohmong Circle (ဗိုလ်မင်းထောင်) is one of three hereditary chiefdoms (or "circles") in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of modern-day Bangladesh. Bengal and Bohmong Circle are subdivisions of British India.
Border checkpoint
A border checkpoint is a location on an international border where travelers or goods are inspected and allowed (or denied) passage through.
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Bose–Einstein condensate
In condensed matter physics, a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is a state of matter that is typically formed when a gas of bosons at very low densities is cooled to temperatures very close to absolute zero (−273.15 °C or −459.67 °F or 0 K).
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Bose–Einstein statistics
In quantum statistics, Bose–Einstein statistics (B–E statistics) describes one of two possible ways in which a collection of non-interacting identical particles may occupy a set of available discrete energy states at thermodynamic equilibrium.
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Botany
Botany, also called plant science (or plant sciences), plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology.
Brahmaputra River
The Brahmaputra is a trans-boundary river which flows through Tibet (China), Northeastern India, and Bangladesh.
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Brahmi script
Brahmi (ISO: Brāhmī) is a writing system of ancient India.
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is one of the Breakthrough Prizes, awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Board.
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Brihadisvara Temple
Brihadishvara Temple, called Rajarajesvaram by its builder, and known locally as Thanjai Periya Kovil and Peruvudaiyar Kovil, is a Shaivite Hindu temple built in a Chola architectural style located on the south bank of the Cauvery river in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Brill Publishers
Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.
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British Bangladeshis
British Bangladeshis (Bilatī Bangladeshī) are people of Bangladeshi origin who have attained citizenship in the United Kingdom, through immigration and historical naturalisation.
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British Empire
The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.
British Raj
The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.
British rule in Burma
The British colonial rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the successive three Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony, and finally independence.
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Brunei
Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo.
Buddha's Birthday
Buddha's Birthday or Buddha Day (also known as Buddha Jayanti, Buddha Purnima, and Buddha Pournami) is a primarily Buddhist festival that is celebrated in most of South, Southeast and East Asia, commemorating the birth of the prince Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Gautama Buddha and founded Buddhism.
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Buddhadeva Bose
Buddhadeva Bose (1908–1974), also spelt Buddhadeb Bosu, was an Indian Bengali writer of the 20th century.
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Buddhism
Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.
Bungalow
A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is single-storey, and may be surrounded by wide verandas.
Burdwan division
Burdwan Division is one of the 5 administrative division in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Calcutta Stock Exchange
Calcutta Stock Exchange (CSE) is an Indian stock exchange based in Kolkata, India.
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.
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Caretaker government of Bangladesh
The caretaker government of Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশের তত্ত্বাবধায়ক সরকার) was a form of government in which Bangladesh used to be ruled by a selected government for an interim period during the transition from one elected government to another, after the completion of tenure of the former, during the period between 1996 and 2008.
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Cavalry
Historically, cavalry (from the French word cavalerie, itself derived from cheval meaning "horse") are soldiers or warriors who fight mounted on horseback.
Ceded and Conquered Provinces
The Ceded and Conquered Provinces constituted a region in northern India that was ruled by the British East India Company from 1805 to 1834; it corresponded approximately—in present-day India—to all regions in Uttar Pradesh state with the exception of the Lucknow and Faizabad divisions of Awadh; in addition, it included the Delhi territory and, after 1816, the Kumaun division and a large part of the Garhwal division of present-day Uttarakhand state. Bengal and Ceded and Conquered Provinces are historical Indian regions and subdivisions of British India.
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Chakma Circle
The Chakma Circle (Chakma: 𑄌𑄇𑄴𑄟𑄳𑄦 𑄥𑄢𑄴𑄇𑄬𑄣𑄴), also known as the Chakma Raj, is one of three hereditary chiefdoms (or "circles") in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of modern-day Bangladesh. Bengal and Chakma Circle are subdivisions of British India.
Chakma language
Chakma (autonym:, script) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Chakma and Daingnet people.
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Chakma people
The Chakma people or Changhma people (Chakma:𑄌𑄋𑄴𑄟𑄳𑄦), are an ethnic group from the eastern-most regions of the Indian subcontinent and Western Myanmar.
Chalcolithic
The Chalcolithic (also called the Copper Age and Eneolithic) was an archaeological period characterized by the increasing use of smelted copper.
Chandidas
Chandidas (1339–1399, চণ্ডীদাস) was a medieval Bengali poet from India, or possibly more than one.
Chandra dynasty
The Chandra dynasty was a Buddhist dynasty, originating from the South East Bengal region of Indian subcontinent, which ruled the Samatata area of Bengal, as well as Arakan.
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Chandradwip
Chandradwip or Chandradvipa is a small region in Barisal District, Bangladesh.
Chandraketugarh
Chandraketugarh, located in the Ganges Delta, is actually consists of a cluster of villages in the 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, about north-east of Kolkata.
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Charyapada
The Charyapada (IAST: Caryapāda) is a collection of mystical poems, songs of realization in the Vajrayana tradition of Buddhism from the tantric tradition in Assam, Bengal, Bihar and Odisha.
Chess
Chess is a board game for two players.
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Chhota Katra
Choto Katra (ছোট কাটারা; Small Katra) is one of two Katras built during Mughal's regime in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Chief minister
A chief minister is an elected or appointed head of government of – in most instances – a sub-national entity, for instance an administrative subdivision or federal constituent entity.
Chittagong
Chittagong, officially Chattogram (Côṭṭôgrām, Chittagonian: চাটগাঁও Sāṭgão), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh.
Chittagong Chamber of Commerce & Industry
The Chittagong Chamber of Commerce & Industry (CCCI), is an industry-led and industry-managed organization which represents the business and corporate sector in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
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Chittagong Division
Chittagong Division, officially known as Chattogram Division, is geographically the largest of the eight administrative divisions of Bangladesh.
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Chittagong Hill Tracts
The Chittagong (Chadigang) Hill Tracts (Parbotto Chottogram), often shortened to simply the Hill Tracts and abbreviated to CHT, are a group of districts within the Chittagong Division in southeastern Bangladesh, bordering India and Myanmar (Burma) in the east.
See Bengal and Chittagong Hill Tracts
Chittagong Hill Tracts manual
Chittagong Hill Tracts Regulation, 1900 (Act 1 of 1900) popularly known as Chittagong Hill Tracts manual is a manual enacted by the then British India Government describing how to administer Chittagong Hill Tracts of present-day eastern Bangladesh.
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Chittagong Stock Exchange
The Chittagong Stock Exchange (চট্টগ্রাম স্টক এক্সচেঞ্জ) is a stock exchange based in the port city Chittagong, Bangladesh.
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Chittagonian language
Chittagonian (চাটগাঁইয়া saṭgãia or চিটাইঙ্গা siṭaiṅga) or Chittagonian Bengali is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in parts of the Chittagong Division in Bangladesh.
See Bengal and Chittagonian language
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
Christmas
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world.
Cinema of Bangladesh
The Cinema of Bangladesh is a diverse and vibrant entity, consisting of films produced across various regions, each contributing its unique linguistic and cultural perspective.
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Clement Attlee
Clement Richard Attlee, 1st Earl Attlee, (3 January 18838 October 1967) was a British statesman and Labour Party politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1945 to 1951 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1935 to 1955.
Coin
A coin is a small object, usually round and flat, used primarily as a medium of exchange or legal tender.
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Colonial Assam
Colonial Assam (1826–1947) refers to the period in the history of Assam between the signing of the Treaty of Yandabo and the Independence of India when Assam was under British colonial rule. Bengal and colonial Assam are subdivisions of British India.
Comilla
Comilla (কুমিল্লা), officially spelled Cumilla, is a metropolis on the banks of the Gomti River in eastern Bangladesh.
Communism in India
Communism in India has existed as a social or political ideology as well as a political movement since at least as early as the 1920s.
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Communist Party of India (Marxist)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)) is a communist political party in India.
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Company rule in India
Company rule in India (sometimes Company Raj, from lit) was the rule of the British East India Company on the Indian subcontinent.
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Confectionery
Confectionery is the art of making confections, or sweet foods.
Conifer
Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms.
Conquest of Sylhet
The Conquest of Sylhet (Conquest of Srihatta) predominantly refers to an Islamic conquest of Srihatta (present-day Sylhet, Bangladesh) led by Sikandar Khan Ghazi, the military general of Sultan Shamsuddin Firoz Shah of the Lakhnauti Sultanate, against the Hindu king Gour Govinda.
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Constituent Assembly of India
The Constituent Assembly of India was elected to frame the Constitution of India.
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Constituent Assembly of Pakistan
The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan (Pākistān Goṇoporishod; آئین ساز اسمبلی.|Aāin Sāz Asimblī) was established in August 1947 to frame a constitution for Pakistan.
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Constitution of Bangladesh
The Constitution of Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশের সংবিধান –), officially the Constitution of the People's Republic of Bangladesh (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশের সংবিধান –) is the supreme law of Bangladesh.
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Contemporary art
Contemporary art is a term used to describe the art of today, and it generally refers to art produced from the 1970s onwards.
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Cooch Behar Palace
Cooch Behar Palace is a landmark in Cooch Behar city, West Bengal.
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Coral reef
A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals.
Cox's Bazar
Cox's Bazar (Kôksbajar) is a city, fishing port, tourism centre, and district headquarters in southeastern Bangladesh.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps.
Crown colony
A Crown colony or royal colony was a colony governed by England, and then Great Britain or the United Kingdom within the English and later British Empire.
Culture of ancient Rome
The culture of ancient Rome existed throughout the almost 1,200-year history of the civilization of Ancient Rome.
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Culture of Bengal
The culture of Bengal defines the cultural heritage of the Bengali people native to eastern regions of the Indian subcontinent, mainly what is today Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, where they form the dominant ethnolinguistic group and the Bengali language is the official and primary language.
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Cyril Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe
Cyril John Radcliffe, 1st Viscount Radcliffe, (30 March 1899 – 1 April 1977) was a British lawyer and Law Lord best known for his role in the Partition of India.
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Danish East India Company
The Danish East India Company (Ostindisk Kompagni) refers to two separate Danish-Norwegian chartered companies.
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Darjeeling
Darjeeling is a city in the northernmost region of the Indian state of West Bengal.
Darjeeling Himalayan hill region
Darjeeling Himalayan hill region, also known as the Darjeeling Hills or Darjeeling Himalaya, is a mountainous area on the north-western side of the state of West Bengal in India.
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Darjeeling Himalayan Railway
The Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, also known as the DHR or the Toy Train, is a gauge railway that runs between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Date palm
Phoenix dactylifera, commonly known as the date palm, is a flowering-plant species in the palm family, Arecaceae, cultivated for its edible sweet fruit called dates.
Daud Khan Karrani
Daud Khan Karrani (died on 12 July 1576) was the last ruler of Bengal's Karrani dynasty as well as the final Sultan of Bengal, reigning from 1572 to 1576.
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Daulat Qazi
Daulat Qazi (দৌলত কাজী) was a medieval Bengali poet.
Deindustrialization
Deindustrialization is a process of social and economic change caused by the removal or reduction of industrial capacity or activity in a country or region, especially of heavy industry or manufacturing industry.
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Delhi Sultanate
The Delhi Sultanate or the Sultanate of Delhi was a late medieval empire primarily based in Delhi that stretched over large parts of the Indian subcontinent, for 320 years (1206–1526).
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Deva dynasty
Deva Dynasty (c. 12th – 13th centuries) was a Bengali Hindu Kayastha dynasty which originated in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent; the dynasty ruled over eastern Bengal after the Sena dynasty.
Devapala of Bengal
Devapala (দেবপাল) was the emperor of the Pala Empire of Bengal.
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Dhaka
Dhaka (or; Ḍhākā), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh.
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Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry
Dhaka Chamber of Commerce & Industry (DCCI), established in 1958, is a large organization for businesspeople in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Dhaka Division
Dhaka Division (ঢাকা বিভাগ, Ḍhaka Bibhag) is an administrative division within Bangladesh.
Dhaka Stock Exchange
The Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) (ঢাকা স্টক এক্সচেঞ্জ Dhaka stôk ekschenj), located in Nikunja, Dhaka, is one of the two stock exchanges of Bangladesh, the other being the Chittagong Stock Exchange.
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Dharmapala of Bengal
Dharmapala (Siddhamātṛikā script:, Dha-rmma-pā-la; Bengali: ধর্মপাল) (ruled between 770s–810s CE) was the second ruler of the Pala Empire of Bengal region in the Indian subcontinent.
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Dhol
Dhol can refer to any one of a number of similar types of double-headed drum widely used, with regional variations, throughout the Indian subcontinent.
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Dhoti
The dhoti, also known as veshti, mardani, dhotar, jaiñboh, or panchey, is a piece of cloth arranged around the legs to resemble trousers.
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Diarchy
Diarchy (from Greek δι-, di-, "double", and -αρχία, -arkhía, "ruled"),Occasionally misspelled dyarchy, as in the Encyclopaedia Britannica article on the colonial British institution duarchy, or duumvirate.
Dihar (archaeological site)
Dihar is an archaeological site of Neolithic and Early village farming culture located in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Dinar
The dinar is the name of the principal currency unit in several countries near the Mediterranean Sea, with a more widespread historical use.
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Dinghy
A dinghy is a type of small boat, often carried or towed by a larger vessel for use as a tender.
Dipterocarpus
D. retusus'' in Köhler Dipterocarpus is a genus of flowering plants and the type genus of family Dipterocarpaceae.
Dominion of India
The Dominion of India, officially the Union of India,.
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Dominion of Pakistan
The Dominion of Pakistan, officially Pakistan, was an independent federal dominion in the British Commonwealth of Nations, existing between 14 August 1947 and 23 March 1956, created by the passing of the Indian Independence Act 1947 by the British parliament, which also created an independent Dominion of India.
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Dooars
The Dooars or Duars are the alluvial floodplains in eastern-northeastern India and southern Bhutan that lie south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas and north of the Brahmaputra River basin. Bengal and Dooars are regions of India.
Dotara
The dotara (or dotar) (দোতোৰা dûtûra, দোতারা, দোতোৰা dotora, literally, “Of two strings”) is a two-stringed, plucked musical instrument from South Asia, with most contemporary models having four playing strings (similar to the sarod).
Dravidian languages
The Dravidian languages (sometimes called Dravidic) are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, mainly in southern India, north-east Sri Lanka, and south-west Pakistan, with pockets elsewhere in South Asia.
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Durga Puja
Durga Puja (ISO), also known as Durgotsava or Sharodotsav, is an annual festival originating in the Indian subcontinent which reveres and pays homage to the Hindu goddess Durga, and is also celebrated because of Durga's victory over Mahishasura.
Durgapur
Durgapur is a major industrial city and a planned urban agglomeration in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Dutch East India Company
The United East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, abbreviated as VOC), commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world.
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East Bengal
East Bengal (পূর্ব বাংলা/পূর্ববঙ্গ Purbô Bangla/Purbôbongo) was a non-contiguous province of the Dominion of Pakistan.
East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874.
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East Pakistan
East Pakistan was the eastern province of Pakistan between 1955 and 1971, covering the territory of the modern country Bangladesh.
Eastern Bengal and Assam
Eastern Bengal and Assam was a province of India between 1905 and 1912.
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Eastern South Asia
Eastern South Asia is a geographical area in the Southern Asian subregion, precisely the eastern region of the subcontinent. Bengal and eastern South Asia are geography of Bangladesh and geography of India.
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Economic liberalization
Economic liberalization, or economic liberalisation, is the lessening of government regulations and restrictions in an economy in exchange for greater participation by private entities.
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Ektara
The ektara (একতারা, एकतारा, اِک تارا, एकतारे, ਇਕ ਤਾਰਾ, எக்டரா; literally 'one-string', also called actara, iktar, ektar,, yaktaro, gopichand, gopichant, golki गोल्, gopijiantra, tun tuna) is a one-stringed musical instrument used in the traditional music of the Indian subcontinent, and used in modern-day music of Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan.
Endonym and exonym
An endonym (also known as autonym) is a common, native name for a group of people, individual person, geographical place, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside a particular group or linguistic community to identify or designate themselves, their homeland, or their language.
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Environmental Health Perspectives
Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) is a peer-reviewed open access journal published monthly with support from the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).
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Estuary
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
Ethnolinguistics
Ethnolinguistics (sometimes called cultural linguistics) is an area of anthropological linguistics that studies the relationship between a language and the cultural behavior of the people who speak that language.
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Evergreen
In botany, an evergreen is a plant which has foliage that remains green and functional throughout the year.
Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah
Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah (ফখরুদ্দীন মুবারক শাহ, فخر الدین مبارک شاه; reigned: 1338–1349), also known simply as Fakhra, was the founder of an independent sultanate comprising modern-day eastern and southeastern Bangladesh.
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Famine in India
Famine had been a recurrent feature of life in the South Asian subcontinent countries of India and Bangladesh, most notoriously under British rule.
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Farakka Port
Farakka Port (Bengali: ফারাক্কা বন্দর)or Farakka Floating Terminal is one of the minor river ports in West Bengal.
Faridpur District
Faridpur District (ফরিদপুর জেলা) is a district in south-central Bangladesh.
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Faridpur, Bangladesh
Faridpur is a city located in southern Bangladesh.
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Farrukhsiyar
Farrukhsiyar (20 August 16839 April 1719), also spelled as Farrukh Siyar, was the tenth Mughal Emperor from 1713 to 1719.
Fazlur Rahman Khan
Fazlur Rahman Khan (ফজলুর রহমান খান, Fazlur Rôhman Khan; 3 April 1929 – 27 March 1982) was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect, who initiated important structural systems for skyscrapers.
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Federal Research Division
The Federal Research Division (FRD) is the research and analysis unit of the United States Library of Congress.
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Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce & Industries
Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industries (FBCCI; বাংলাদেশ শিল্প ও বণিক সমিতি) is the apex trade organization of Bangladesh playing a pivotal role in consultative and advisory capacity, safeguarding the interest of the private sector in the country.
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Firuz Shah Tughlaq
Sultan Firuz Shah Tughlaq (1309 – 20 September 1388) was a Muslim ruler from the Tughlaq dynasty, who reigned over the Sultanate of Delhi from 1351 to 1388.
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Fishing cat
The fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) is a medium-sized wild cat of South and Southeast Asia.
Floodplain
A floodplain or flood plain or bottomlands is an area of land adjacent to a river.
Freedom of religion
Freedom of religion or religious liberty is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.
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French East India Company
The French East India Company (Compagnie française pour le commerce des Indes orientales) was a joint-stock company founded in France on 1 September 1664 to compete with the English (later British) and Dutch trading companies in the East Indies.
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Gangaridai
Gangaridai (Γαγγαρίδαι; Latin: Gangaridae) is a term used by the ancient Greco-Roman writers (1st century BCE-2nd century AD) to describe people or a geographical region of the ancient Indian subcontinent. Bengal and Gangaridai are historical Indian regions.
Ganges
The Ganges (in India: Ganga,; in Bangladesh: Padma). "The Ganges Basin, known in India as the Ganga and in Bangladesh as the Padma, is an international river which goes through India, Bangladesh, Nepal and China." is a trans-boundary river of Asia which flows through India and Bangladesh. The -long river rises in the western Himalayas in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
Ganges Delta
The Ganges Delta (also known the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, the Sundarbans Delta or the Bengal Delta) is a river delta in Eastern South Asia predominantly covering the Bengal region of the subcontinent, consisting of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. Bengal and Ganges Delta are regions of India.
Garo language
Garo, also referred to by its endonym A·chikku, is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in the Northeast Indian states of Meghalaya, Assam, and Tripura.
Garo people
The Garo people are a Tibeto-Burmese ethnic group who live mostly in the Northeast Indian state of Meghalaya with a smaller number in the neighbouring Bangladesh.
Gauḍa (city)
Gauḍa (also known as Gaur, Gour, Lakhnauti, Lakshmanavati and Jannatabad) is a 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.
Gender Parity Index
UNESCO defined the Gender Parity Index (GPI) as a socioeconomic index usually designed to measure the relative access to education of males and females.
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Gender pay gap
The gender pay gap or gender wage gap is the average difference between the remuneration for men and women who are working.
Geography of Bangladesh
Bangladesh is a densely populated, low-lying, mainly riverine country located in South Asia with a coastline of on the northern littoral of the Bay of Bengal.
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Ghiyasuddin Azam Shah
Ghiyasuddin A'zam Shah (গিয়াসউদ্দীন আজম শাহ, غیاثالدین اعظمشاه) was the third Sultan of Bengal and the Ilyas Shahi dynasty.
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Ghurid dynasty
The Ghurid dynasty (also spelled Ghorids; translit; self-designation: شنسبانی, Šansabānī) was a Persianate dynasty of presumably eastern Iranian Tajik origin, which ruled from the 8th-century in the region of Ghor, and became an Empire from 1175 to 1215.
Gombhira
Gombhira, Gambhira or Gamvira is a type of Bengali song and dance originating in the Bengal region, from what is known today as northwestern Bangladesh and north eastern West Bengal, India.
Gopala I
Gopala (গোপাল) (ruled –770s CE) was the founder of the Pala dynasty, which was based in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent.
Government of Bangladesh
The Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ সরকার —) is the central executive government of Bangladesh.
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Government of India
The Government of India (IAST: Bhārat Sarkār, legally the Union Government or Union of India and colloquially known as the Central Government) is the central executive authority of the Republic of India, a federal republic located in South Asia, consisting of 28 states and eight union territories.
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Governor-General of India
The governor-general of India (1833 to 1950, from 1858 to 1947 the viceroy and governor-general of India, commonly shortened to viceroy of India) was the representative of the monarch of the United Kingdom in their capacity as the Emperor/Empress of India and after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Monarch of India.
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Great Bengal famine of 1770
The Great Bengal famine of 1770 struck Bengal and Bihar between 1769 and 1770 and affected some 30 million people.
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Greater Bangladesh
Greater Bangladesh (Brihôttôr Bangladesh), or Greater Bangla also Greater Bengal (Brihôttôr Bangla) is the irredentist ideology of Bangladesh to inevitably expand its territory to include the Indian states that currently has, or historically had, large populations of ethnic Bengali people. Bengal and Greater Bangladesh are geography of Bangladesh.
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Greater India
Greater India, also known as the Indian cultural sphere, or the Indic world, is an area composed of several countries and regions in South Asia, East Asia and Southeast Asia that were historically influenced by Indian culture, which itself formed from the various distinct indigenous cultures of South Asia. Bengal and Greater India are geography of India.
Gunpowder
Gunpowder, also commonly known as black powder to distinguish it from modern smokeless powder, is the earliest known chemical explosive.
Gupta Empire
The Gupta Empire was an ancient Indian empire on the Indian subcontinent which existed from the mid 3rd century CE to mid 6th century CE.
Gurjara-Pratihara dynasty
The Pratihara dynasty, also called the Gurjara-Pratiharas, the Pratiharas of Kannauj and the Imperial Pratiharas, was a medieval Indian dynasty that ruled parts of Northern India from the mid-8th to the 11th century.
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Hajong language
Hajong is an Indo-Aryan language with a possible Tibeto-Burman language substratum.
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Haldia
Haldia is an industrial port city in Purba Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Haldia Port
The Haldia Port (Holdiẏa Bondor), officially Haldia Dock Complex (HDC), is a port on the confluence of the Haldi River and the Hooghly River.
Han Chinese
The Han Chinese or the Han people, or colloquially known as the Chinese are an East Asian ethnic group native to Greater China.
Handicraft
A handicraft is a traditional main sector of craft making and applies to a wide range of creative and design activities that are related to making things with one's hands and skill, including work with textiles, moldable and rigid materials, paper, plant fibers, clay, etc.
Harikela
Harikela was an ancient kingdom located in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent.
Hason Raja
Dewan Hason Raja Chowdhury, or simply known as Hason Raja, হাসন রাজা; 21 December 1854 – 6 December 1922), was a Bengali mystic poet and songwriter from Sylhet, Bengal Presidency (now Bangladesh). His unique style of music made him one of the most prominent figures in Bengali folk culture.
Hejaz
The Hejaz (also; lit) is a region that includes the majority of the west coast of Saudi Arabia, covering the cities of Mecca, Medina, Jeddah, Tabuk, Yanbu, Taif and Baljurashi.
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Heliocentrism
Heliocentrism (also known as the heliocentric model) is a superseded astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the universe.
Hercules
Hercules is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divine hero Heracles, son of Jupiter and the mortal Alcmena.
Heritiera fomes
Heritiera fomes is a species of mangrove tree in the family Malvaceae.
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Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya. Bengal and Himalayas are geography of South Asia.
Hindi
Modern Standard Hindi (आधुनिक मानक हिन्दी, Ādhunik Mānak Hindī), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in Devanagari script.
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Hindu Mahasabha
Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha is a Hindu nationalist political party in India.
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Hindu nationalism
Hindu nationalism has been collectively referred to as the expression of social and political thought, based on the native spiritual and cultural traditions of the Indian subcontinent.
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Hindu–Arabic numeral system
The Hindu–Arabic numeral system (also known as the Indo-Arabic numeral system,Audun Holme,, 2000 Hindu numeral system, Arabic numeral system) is a positional base ten numeral system for representing integers; its extension to non-integers is the decimal numeral system, which is presently the most common numeral system.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide.
Hindustani classical music
Hindustani classical music is the classical music of the Indian subcontinent's northern regions.
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Historical geography
Historical geography is the branch of geography that studies the ways in which geographic phenomena have changed over time.
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History of China
The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area.
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History of India (1947–present)
The history of independent India or history of Republic of India began when the country became an independent sovereign state within the British Commonwealth on 15 August 1947.
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History of the taka
The taka, also known as the tanka or tangka, was one of the major historical currencies of Asia, particularly in the Indian subcontinent and Tibet.
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Howrah
Howrah (alternatively pronounced as Haora) is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
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Humayun Ahmed
Humayun Ahmed (ɦumaiyun aɦmed; 13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012) was a Bangladeshi novelist, dramatist, screenwriter, filmmaker, songwriter, scholar, and academic.
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy (হোসেন শহীদ সোহ্রাওয়ার্দী; حسین شہید سہروردی; 8 September 18925 December 1963) was a Pakistani Bengali barrister and politician.
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Hussain Shahi dynasty
The Hussain Shahi dynasty was a family which ruled the late medieval Sunni Muslim Sultanate of Bengal from 1494 to 1538.
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Ibn Battuta
Abū Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abd Allāh Al-Lawātī (24 February 13041368/1369), commonly known as Ibn Battuta, was a Maghrebi traveller, explorer and scholar.
Ilish
The ilish (Tenualosa ilisha) (translit), also known as the ilishi, hilsa, hilsa herring or hilsa shad, is a species of fish related to the herring, in the family Clupeidae.
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Iltutmish
Shams ud-Din Iltutmish (شمس الدین ایلتتمش; (1192-died 30 April 1236) was the third of the Mamluk kings who ruled the former Ghurid territories in northern India. He was the first Muslim sovereign to rule from Delhi, and is thus considered the effective founder of the Delhi Sultanate. Sold into slavery as a young boy, Iltutmish spent his early life in Bukhara and Ghazni under multiple masters.
Ilyas Shahi dynasty
The Ilyas Shahi dynasty (ইলিয়াস শাহী খান্দান, دودمان الیاسشاهی) was the first independent dynasty to set the foundations of the late medieval Sunni Muslim Sultanate of Bengal of Turk origin.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
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Indian classical drama
The term Indian classical drama refers to the tradition of dramatic literature and performance in ancient India.
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Indian Councils Act 1909
The Indian Councils Act 1909 (9 Edw. 7. c. 4), commonly known as the Morley–Minto or Minto–Morley Reforms, was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that brought about a limited increase in the involvement of Indians in the governance of British India.
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Indian independence movement
The Indian Independence Movement was a series of historic events in South Asia with the ultimate aim of ending British colonial rule.
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Indian National Army
The Indian National Army (INA; Azad Hind Fauj; 'Free Indian Army') was a collaborationist armed unit of Indian collaborators that fought under the command of the Japanese Empire.
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Indian National Congress
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Indian Ocean trade
Indian Ocean trade has been a key factor in East–West exchanges throughout history.
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Indian Rebellion of 1857
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.
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Indian rupee
The Indian rupee (symbol: ₹; code: INR) is the official currency in India.
Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas. Bengal and Indian subcontinent are regions of Asia.
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Indo-Aryan languages
The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family.
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Indo-European languages
The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent.
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Indo-Saracenic architecture
Indo-Saracenic architecture (also known as Indo-Gothic, Mughal-Gothic, Neo-Mughal, in the 19th century often Indo-Islamic style) was a revivalist architectural style mostly used by British architects in India in the later 19th century, especially in public and government buildings in the British Raj, and the palaces of rulers of the princely states.
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Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) professional association for electronics engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines.
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International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 190 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.
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International Mother Language Day
International Mother Language Day is a worldwide annual observance held on 21 February to promote awareness of linguistic and cultural diversity and to promote multilingualism.
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International trade
International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories because there is a need or want of goods or services.
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three historical Metal Ages, after the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age.
Irreligion
Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices.
Isa Khan
Isa Khan (Middle Bengali: ঈশা খাঁ, c. 17 April 1536 –29 August 1599) was the leader of the 16th-century Baro-Bhuiyan chieftains of Bengal.
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
Ishwar Chandra Bandyopadhyay (popularly known as Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar; lit; 26 September 1820 – 29 July 1891) was an Indian educator and social reformer of the nineteenth century.
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Islam
Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.
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Islam in Southeast Asia
Islam is the most widely practised religion in Southeast Asia with approximately 240 million adherents in the region (about 42% of its population), with majorities in Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia as well parts of Southern Thailand and parts of Mindanao in the Philippines respectively.
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Islamic Development Bank
The Islamic Development Bank (البنك الإسلامي للتنمية, abbreviated as IsDB) is a multilateral development finance institution that is focused on Islamic finance for infrastructure development and located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
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Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition
The Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition (IMCTC) is an intergovernmental counter-terrorist military alliance between 42 member states in the Muslim world, united around the war against the Islamic State and other counter-terrorist activities.
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Jackfruit
The jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) is a species of tree in the fig, mulberry, and breadfruit family (Moraceae).
Jagadish Chandra Bose
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937) was a polymath with interests in biology, physics, botany and writing science fiction.
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Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah
Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah (জালালউদ্দীন মুহম্মদ শাহ; born as Jadu/যদূ) was a 15th-century Sultan of Bengal and an important figure in medieval Bengali history.
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Jaldapara National Park
Jaldapara National Park (Pron: ˌʤʌldəˈpɑ:rə) is a national park situated at the foothills of the Eastern Himalayas in Alipurduar District of northern West Bengal, India, and on the banks of the Torsa River.
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Jalpaiguri division
Jalpaiguri Division is one of the 5 divisions in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Jamdani
Jamdani (জামদানি) is a fine muslin textile (figured with different patterns) produced for centuries in South Rupshi of Narayanganj district in Bangladesh on the bank of Shitalakhwa river.
Jamuna River (Bangladesh)
The Jamuna River (yamunā Jomuna) is one of the three main rivers of Bangladesh.
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Jasimuddin
Jasimuddin PP IP EP (জসীম উদ্দীন; 1 January 1903 – 14 March 1976), popularly called Palli Kabi, was a Bangladeshi poet, lyricist, composer and writer widely celebrated for his modern ballad sagas in the pastoral mode.
Jatiya Party (Ershad)
The Jatiya Party (lit) is a political party in Bangladesh.
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Jatiya Sangsad
The Jatiya Sangsad (translit), often simply referred to as Sangsad and also known as the House of the Nation, is the supreme legislative body of Bangladesh.
Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban
Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban or National Parliament Building, (জাতীয় সংসদ ভবন Jatiyô Sôngsôd Bhôbôn) is the house of the Parliament of Bangladesh, located at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar besides St. Joseph Higher Secondary School in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka.
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Jaunpur district
Jaunpur district is a district in the Varanasi Division of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
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Jaunpur Sultanate
The Jaunpur Sultanate (سلطنت جونپور) was a late medieval Indian Muslim state which ruled over much of what is now the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar between 1394 and 1494.
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Java
Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia.
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Jessore
Jessore (jôshor), officially Jashore, is a city of Jessore District in Khulna Division.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Nilanjana Sudeshna "Jhumpa" LahiriMinzesheimer, Bob.
Jibanananda Das
Jibanananda Das (17 February 1899 – 22 October 1954) was an Indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist in the Bengali language.
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John F. Richards
John F. Richards (November 3, 1938 – August 23, 2007) was a historian of South Asia and in particular of the Mughal Empire.
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John J. McCusker
John J. McCusker II is the Ewing Halsell Distinguished Professor of American History and Professor of Economics at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas.
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Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.
Jungle
A jungle is land covered with dense forest and tangled vegetation, usually in tropical climates.
Jute
Jute is a long, rough, shiny bast fibre that can be spun into coarse, strong threads.
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Jute trade
The jute trade is centered mainly around India's West Bengal and Assam, and Bangladesh.
Kabaddi
Kabaddi is a contact team sport played between two teams of seven players, originating in ancient India.
Kamarupa
Kamarupa (also called Pragjyotisha or Pragjyotisha-Kamarupa), an early state during the Classical period on the Indian subcontinent, was (along with Davaka) the first historical kingdom of Assam. Bengal and Kamarupa are historical Indian regions.
Kamata Kingdom
The Kamata Kingdom (pron: ˈkʌmətɑ) emerged in western Kamarupa probably when Sandhya, a ruler of Kamarupanagara, moved his capital west to Kamatapur sometime after 1257 CE.
Kannauj
Kannauj (Hindustani pronunciation: kənːɔːd͡ʒ) is an ancient city, administrative headquarters and a municipal board or Nagar Palika Parishad in Kannauj district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Karimganj
Karimganj is a town in the Karimganj District of the Indian state of Assam.
Karrani dynasty
The Karrani dynasty (Karlāṇī, Korrāṇī) was founded in 1564 by Taj Khan Karrani, an ethnic Afghan from the Karlani tribe, hailing from Bangash district.
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Katra Masjid
The Katra Masjid is a former caravanserai, mosque and the tomb of Nawab Murshid Quli Khan.
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam (কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম,; 25 May 1899 – 29 August 1976) was a Bengali poet, writer, journalist, and musician.
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Kebab
Kebab (كباب, kabāb, كباب,; kebap), kabob (North American), kebap, or kabab (Kashmir) is a variety of roasted meat dishes that originated in the Middle East.
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Kharagpur
Kharagpur is a semi-planned urban agglomeration and a major industrial city in the Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal, India.
Khasi language
Khasi (Ka Ktien Khasi) is an Austroasiatic language with just over a million speakers in north-east India, primarily the Khasi people in the state of Meghalaya.
Khasi people
The Khasi people are an ethnic group of Meghalaya in north-eastern India with a significant population in the bordering state of Assam, and in certain parts of Bangladesh.
Khen dynasty
The Khen dynasty (also Khyen dynasty) of Assam was a late medieval dynasty of the erstwhile Kamata kingdom.
Kho kho
Kho kho is a traditional South Asian sport that dates to ancient India.
Khulna
Khulna (খুলনা) is the third-largest city in Bangladesh, after Dhaka and Chittagong.
Khulna Division
The Khulna Division (খুলনা বিভাগ) is the second largest of the eight divisions of Bangladesh.
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Kingdom of Gauda
The Gauḍa Kingdom (Gauṛa Rājya) was a kingdom during the Classical era in the Indian subcontinent, which originated in the Gauda region of Bengal (modern-day West Bengal and Bangladesh) in 4th century CE or possibly earlier.
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Kingdom of Mrauk U
The Kingdom of Mrauk-U (Arakanese: မြောက်ဦး ဘုရင့်နိုင်ငံတော်) was a kingdom that existed on the Arakan littoral from 1429 to 1785.
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Kishanganj district
Kishanganj district is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar state, India, and Kishanganj town is the administrative headquarters of this district.
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Koch language
Koch is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken by the Koch people of India and Bangladesh.
Koda language
Koda, also known as Kora, Kaora, Korali, Korati, Kore, Mudi, or Mudikora, is an endangered Munda language of India and Bangladesh spoken by the Kora.
Kokborok
Kokborok (or Tripuri) is a Tibeto-Burman language of the Indian state of Tripura and neighbouring areas of Bangladesh.
Kolkata
Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.
Krishna Janmashtami
Krishna Janmashtami, also known simply as Krishnashtami, Janmashtami, or Gokulashtami, is an annual Hindu festival that celebrates the birth of Krishna, the eighth avatar of Vishnu.
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Kuki-Chin languages
The Kuki-Chin-Mizo languages (also called Kuki-Chin-Mizo, Kukish or South-Central Tibeto-Burman languages) are a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family spoken in northeastern India, western Myanmar and southeastern Bangladesh.
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Kurukh language
Kurukh (or; Devanagari: कुँड़ुख़), also Kurux, Oraon or Uranw, is a North Dravidian language spoken by the Kurukh (Oraon) and Kisan people of East India.
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Lahore Resolution
The Lahore Resolution (قراردادِ لاہور, Qarardad-e-Lahore; Bengali: লাহোর প্রস্তাব, Lahor Prostab), also called Pakistan Resolution, was written and prepared by Muhammad Zafarullah Khan and was presented by A. K. Fazlul Huq, the Prime Minister of Bengal, was a formal political statement adopted by the All-India Muslim League on the occasion of its three-day general session in Lahore on 22–24 March 1940.
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Lalbagh Fort
Lalbagh Fort (translit) is a fort in the old city of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Lalon
Lalon (লালন; 14 October 1772 – 17 October 1890), also known as Lalon Shah, Lalon Fakir, Shahji and titled Fakir, Shah, was a prominent Bangladeshi spiritual leader, philosopher, mystic poet and social reformer born in Jhenaidah, Bengal Subah.
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Lawachara National Park
Lawachara National Park (লাউয়াছড়া জাতীয় উদ্যান) is a national park and nature reserve in Bangladesh, located at Kamalganj Upazila and Moulvibazar District in the northeastern region of the country.
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Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha
The Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha (IAST: Lok Sabhā ke Vipakṣa ke Netā) is an elected Member of Lok Sabha who leads the official opposition in the Lower House of the Parliament of India.
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Left Front (West Bengal)
The Left Front (Bengali: বামফ্রন্ট) is an alliance of left-wing political parties in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Legal tender
Legal tender is a form of money that courts of law are required to recognize as satisfactory payment for any monetary debt.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.
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List of ambassadors of the United States to the United Kingdom
The United States ambassador to the United Kingdom (known formally as, The Ambassador of the United States of America to the Court of St James's) is the official representative of the president of the United States and the American government to the monarch (Court of St. James's) and government of the United Kingdom.
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List of Bengalis
This article provides lists of famous and notable Bengali people in the Indian subcontinent, people with Bengali ancestry, and people who speak Bengali as their primary language.
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List of birds of Bangladesh
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Bangladesh.
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List of countries by Human Development Index
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) compiles the Human Development Index (HDI) of 193 nations in the annual Human Development Report.
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List of emperors of the Mughal Empire
The emperors of the Mughal Empire, styled the Emperors of Hindustan, who were all members of the Timurid dynasty (House of Babur), ruled over the empire from its inception in 1526 to its dissolution in 1857.
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List of fishes in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is a country with thousands of rivers and ponds, and is notable as a fish-loving nation, acquiring the name "Machh-e Bhat-e Bangali" (which means, Bengali by fish and rice).
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List of governors of Bengal Presidency
The Governor of Bengal was the head of the executive government of the Bengal Presidency from 1834 to 1854 and again from 1912 to 1947.
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List of languages by number of native speakers
Human languages ranked by their number of native speakers are as follows.
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List of legislatures in South Asia
In South Asia, five countries have parliamentary governments, including Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Pakistan.
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List of mammals of Bangladesh
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Bangladesh.
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List of mountains of Bangladesh
Bangladesh is primarily a low-lying country.
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List of national animals
This is a list of countries that have officially designated one or more animals as their national animals.
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List of Nobel laureates
The Nobel Prizes (Nobelpriset, Nobelprisen) are awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Karolinska Institutet, and the Norwegian Nobel Committee to individuals and organizations who make outstanding contributions in the fields of chemistry, physics, literature, peace, and physiology or medicine.
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List of people considered father or mother of a field
Often, discoveries and innovations are the work of multiple people, resulting from continual improvements over time.
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List of rivers of Bangladesh
Bangladesh is a riverine country.
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Littoral zone
The littoral zone, also called litoral or nearshore, is the part of a sea, lake, or river that is close to the shore.
Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of India's bicameral Parliament, with the upper house being the Rajya Sabha.
Louis Kahn
Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky; – March 17, 1974) was an Estonian-born American architect based in Philadelphia.
Lungi
The lungi is a clothing similar to the sarong that originated in the Indian subcontinent.
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Ma Huan
Ma Huan (Xiao'erjing: ﻣَﺎ ﺧُﻮًا.) (1380–1460), courtesy name Zongdao, pen name Mountain-woodcutter (會稽山樵), was a Chinese explorer, translator, and travel writer who accompanied Admiral Zheng He on three of his seven expeditions to the Western Oceans.
Madhupur tract
Madhupur tract is a large upland area of 4,244 km2 in north central part of Bangladesh, stretching from east of Jamalpur in the north, to Fatullah and Narayanganj, in the south. Bengal and Madhupur tract are geography of Bangladesh.
Magadha
Magadha also called the Kingdom of Magadha or the Magadha Empire, was a kingdom and empire, and one of the sixteen lit during the Second Urbanization period, based in southern Bihar in the eastern Ganges Plain, in Ancient India. Bengal and Magadha are historical Indian regions.
Magadhi Prakrit
Magadhi Prakrit (Māgadhī) is of one of the three Dramatic Prakrits, the written languages of Ancient India following the decline of Pali.
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Mahabharata
The Mahābhārata (महाभारतम्) is one of the two major Smriti texts and Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Rāmāyaṇa.
Mahasthangarh
Mahasthangarh is the earliest urban archaeological sites discovered thus far in Bangladesh.
Maimansingha Gitika
Maimansingha Gitika (lit) is a collection of folk ballads from the region of Mymensingh, Bangladesh.
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Mainamati
Moinamoti is an isolated low, dimpled range of hills, dotted with more than 50 ancient Buddhist settlements dating between the 8th and 12th century CE.
Malacca
Malacca (Melaka), officially the Historic State of Malacca (Melaka Negeri Bersejarah), is a state in Malaysia located in the southern region of the Malay Peninsula, facing the Strait of Malacca.
Malacca Sultanate
The Malacca Sultanate (Kesultanan Melaka; Jawi script: کسلطانن ملاک) was a Malay sultanate based in the modern-day state of Malacca, Malaysia.
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Malay Peninsula
The Malay Peninsula is located in Mainland Southeast Asia. Bengal and Malay Peninsula are regions of Asia.
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Malda division
Malda Division is an administrative division within the Indian state of West Bengal.
Malda, West Bengal
Malda, also known as English Bazar, is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Maldives
The Maldives, officially the Republic of Maldives, and historically known as the Maldive Islands, is a country and archipelagic state in South Asia in the Indian Ocean.
Malindi
Malindi is a town on Malindi Bay at the mouth of the Sabaki River, lying on the Indian Ocean coast of Kenya.
Malto language
Malto or Paharia, or rarely Rajmahali, is a Northern Dravidian language spoken primarily in East India by the Malto people.
Man Singh I
Mirza Raja Man Singh I (21 December 1550 – 6 July 1614) was the 24th Maharaja of Kingdom of Amber from 1589 to 1614.
Mangal-Kāvya
Mangal-Kāvya (মঙ্গলকাব্য; lit. "Poems of Benediction") is a group of Bengali religious texts, composed more or less between 13th and 18th centuries, notably consisting of narratives of indigenous deities of rural Bengal in the social scenario of the Middle Ages.
Mangifera indica
Mangifera indica, commonly known as mango, is a species of flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae.
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Mango
A mango is an edible stone fruit produced by the tropical tree Mangifera indica.
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Mangrove
A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.
Mangrove forest
Mangrove forests, also called mangrove swamps, mangrove thickets or mangals, are productive wetlands that occur in coastal intertidal zones.
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Manik Bandopadhyay
Manik Bandyopadhyay (19 May 1908 – 3 December 1956) is an Indian author regarded as one of the major figures of 20th century Bengali literature.
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Manikya dynasty
The Manikya dynasty was the ruling house of the Twipra Kingdom and later the princely Tripura State, what is now the Indian state of Tripura.
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Manmohan Singh
Manmohan Singh (born 26 September 1932) is an Indian retired politician, economist, academician and bureaucrat who served as the Prime Minister of India from 2004 to 2014.
Maritime Southeast Asia
Maritime Southeast Asia comprises the countries of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and East Timor.
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Maritime transport
Maritime transport (or ocean transport) or more generally waterborne transport, is the transport of people (passengers) or goods (cargo) via waterways.
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Marma people
The Marma (မာရမာ တိုင်းရင်းသား), also known as Moghs, Mogs or Maghs, are the second-largest ethnic community in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts, primarily residing in the Bandarban, Khagrachari and Rangamati Hill Districts.
Marsh
In ecology, a marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous plants rather than by woody plants.
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Matarbari Port
Matarbari Port is a under-construction sea-port on the shores of Bay of Bengal, located at Matarbari area of Chittagong division, Bangladesh.
Maurya Empire
The Maurya Empire (Ashokan Prakrit: 𑀫𑀸𑀕𑀥𑁂, Māgadhe) was a geographically extensive Iron Age historical power in South Asia based in Magadha (present day Bihar).
Medinipur division
Medinipur Division is one of the 5 divisions in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Megam language
Megam is one of the Garo dialects in Garo Hills and And in Khasi Hills which is a part of Sino-Tibetan language spoken in Mynensingh and in Kalmakanda subdistrict, Netrokona district, Mymensingh division, Bangladesh.
Megasthenes
Megasthenes (Μεγασθένης, died 290 BCE) was an ancient Greek historian, diplomat, ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period.
Meghalaya
Meghalaya (or, "the abode of clouds") is a state in northeast India.
Meghna River
The Meghna (Mēghanā Nadī) is one of the major rivers in Bangladesh, one of the three that form the Ganges Delta, the largest delta on earth, which fans out to the Bay of Bengal.
Meghnad Saha
Meghnad Saha (6 October 1893 – 16 February 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist who helped devise the theory of thermal ionisation.
Meitei language
Meitei, also known as Manipuri, is a Tibeto-Burman language of northeast India.
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Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka
Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Dhaka (MCCI), established in 1904, is the oldest trade organization of Bangladesh.
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Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Michael Madhusudan Dutt (25 January 1824 – 29 June 1873) was a Bengali poet and playwright.
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Microwave
Microwave is a form of electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths shorter than other radio waves (as originally discovered) but longer than infrared waves.
Mint (facility)
A mint is an industrial facility which manufactures coins that can be used as currency.
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Mizo language
Mizo is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Mizoram, where it is the official language and lingua franca.
Moon
The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite.
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Mosque City of Bagerhat
The Mosque City of Bagerhat (translit; historically known as Khalifatabad) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Bagerhat District, Bangladesh.
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Mru language
Mru, also known as Mrung (Murung), is a Sino-Tibetan language of Bangladesh and Myanmar.
Mru people
The Mru (Mru: 𖩃𖩓𖩑; မရူစာ; মুরং), also known as the Mro, Murong, Taung Mro, Mrung, and Mrucha, refer to the tribes who live in the border regions between Myanmar (Burma), Bangladesh, and India.
Mughal Empire
The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia.
Muhammad Azam Shah
Mirza Abu'l Fayaz Qutb-ud-Din Mohammad Azam (28 June 1653 – 20 June 1707), commonly known as Azam Shah, was briefly the seventh Mughal emperor from 14 March to 20 June 1707.
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Muhammad Bakhtiyar Khalji
Ikhtiyār al-Dīn Muḥammad Bakhtiyār Khaljī, also known as Bakhtiyar Khalji, was a Turko-Afghan military general of the Ghurid ruler Muhammad of Ghor, who led the Muslim conquests of the eastern Indian regions of Bengal and parts of Bihar and established himself as their ruler.
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Muhammad bin Tughluq
Muhammad bin Tughluq (1290 – 20 March 1351), also named Jauna Khan as Crown Prince, also known by his epithets, The Eccentric Prince, or The Mad Sultan, was the eighteenth Sultan of Delhi.
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Muhammad Yunus
Muhammad Yunus (born 28 June 1940) is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur, banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance.
Mundari language
Mundari (Munɖari) is a Munda language of the Austroasiatic language family spoken by the Munda tribes in eastern Indian states of Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal and northern Rangpur Division of Bangladesh.
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Murshid Quli Khan
Murshid Quli Khan (1660 – 30 June 1727), also known as Mohammad Hadi and born as Surya Narayan Mishra, was the first Nawab of Bengal, serving from 1717 to 1727.
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Murshidabad
Murshidabad is a historical city in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Murshidabad district
Murshidabad district is a district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Music of Bengal
Bengali music (বাংলা সংগীত) comprises a long tradition of religious and secular song-writing over a period of almost a millennium.
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Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent
The Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent mainly took place between the 13th and the 18th centuries.
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Muslim world
The terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah. Bengal and Muslim world are regions of Asia.
Muslin
Muslin is a cotton fabric of plain weave.
Muslin trade in Bengal
Muslin, a Phuti carpus cotton fabric of plain weave, was historically hand woven in the areas of Dhaka and Sonargaon in Bangladesh and exported for many centuries.
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Mustard plant
The mustard plant is any one of several plant species in the genera Brassica, Rhamphospermum and Sinapis in the family Brassicaceae (the mustard family).
Muzharul Islam
Muzharul Islam (25 December 1923 – 15 July 2012) was a Bangladeshi architect, urban planner, educator and activist.
Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
Mymensingh
Mymensingh (ময়মনসিংহ) is a metropolitan city and capital of Mymensingh Division, Bangladesh.
Mymensingh Division
Mymensingh Division (ময়মনসিংহ বিভাগ) is one of the eight administrative divisions of Bangladesh.
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Nabanna
Nobanno (নবান্ন, Nobānno; lit: New Feast) is a Bengali harvest celebration usually celebrated with food and dance and music in Bangladesh and in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam's Barak Valley.
Nader Shah's invasion of India
Emperor Nader Shah, the Shah of Iran (1736–1747) and the founder of the Afsharid dynasty, invaded Northern India, eventually attacking Delhi in March 1739.
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Nagpuri language
Nagpuri (also known as Sadri) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Indian states of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Bihar.
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Nalanda mahavihara
Nalanda (IAST) was a renowned Buddhist mahavihara (great monastery) in ancient and medieval Magadha (modern-day Bihar), eastern India.
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National personification
A national personification is an anthropomorphic personification of a state or the people(s) it inhabits.
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Nawabs of Bengal
The Nawab of Bengal (বাংলার নবাব) was the hereditary ruler of Bengal Subah in Mughal India.
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Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.
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Nepali language
Nepali is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Himalayas region of South Asia.
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News media
The news media or news industry are forms of mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public.
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (Sveriges riksbanks pris i ekonomisk vetenskap till Alfred Nobels minne), is an economics award funded by Sveriges Riksbank and administered by the Nobel Foundation.
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Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.
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Nobel Prize in Literature
The Nobel Prize in Literature (here meaning for literature; Nobelpriset i litteratur) is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction" (original den som inom litteraturen har producerat det utmärktaste i idealisk riktning).
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North Bengal
North Bengal or Uttar Banga (উত্তরবঙ্গ/উত্তর বাংলা) is a term used for the north-western part of Bangladesh and northern part of West Bengal. Bengal and north Bengal are geography of Bangladesh and regions of India.
Northeast India
Northeast India, officially the North Eastern Region (NER), is the easternmost region of India representing both a geographic and political administrative division of the country. It comprises eight states—Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura (commonly known as the "Seven Sisters"), and the "brother" state of Sikkim. Bengal and Northeast India are regions of India.
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Northern Black Polished Ware
The Northern Black Polished Ware culture (abbreviated NBPW or NBP) is an urban Iron Age Indian culture of the Indian subcontinent, lasting –200 BCE (proto NBPW between 1200 and 700 BCE), succeeding the Painted Grey Ware culture and Black and red ware culture.
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Nyctanthes arbor-tristis
Nyctanthes arbor-tristis is a species of Nyctanthes native to South Asia and Southeast Asia.
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Nymphaea
Nymphaea is a genus of hardy and tender aquatic plants in the family Nymphaeaceae.
Oak
An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus Quercus of the beech family.
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Odia language
Odia (ଓଡ଼ିଆ, ISO:,; formerly rendered as Oriya) is an Indo-Aryan classical language spoken in the Indian state of Odisha.
Odisha
Odisha (English), formerly Orissa (the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India.
Official language
An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations.
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Om Prakash (historian)
Om Prakash (born January 1940, in Delhi) is an Indian economic historian.
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Optics
Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it.
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC; Munaẓẓamat at-Taʿāwun al-ʾIslāmī; Organisation de la coopération islamique), formerly the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, is an intergovernmental organization founded in 1969.
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Oriental magpie-robin
The Oriental magpie-robin (Copsychus saularis) is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but now considered an Old World flycatcher.
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Ostend Company
The Ostend Company (Oostendse Compagnie; Compagnie d'Ostende), officially the General Company Established in the Austrian Netherlands for Commerce and Navigation in the Indies was a chartered trading company in the Austrian Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) in the Holy Roman Empire which was established in 1722 to trade with the East and West Indies.
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
Oxbow lake
An oxbow lake is a U-shaped lake or pool that forms when a wide meander of a river is cut off, creating a free-standing body of water.
Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Padma Division
Padma Division (পদ্মা বিভাগ) is a proposed administrative division within Bangladesh for the southern parts of the existing Dhaka Division, comprising Faridpur, Gopalganj, Madaripur, Rajbari, and Shariatpur Districts of Dhaka Division.
Padma River
The Padma (Padmā ''Pôdma'') is a major river in Bangladesh.
Pajamas
Pajamas (US) or pyjamas (Commonwealth), sometimes colloquially shortened to PJs, jammies, jim-jams, or in South Asia, night suits, are several related types of clothing worn as nightwear or while lounging.
Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.
Pakistani rupee
The Pakistani rupee (ISO code: PKR) is the official currency in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
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Pala Empire
The Pāla Empire (r. 750–1161 CE) was an imperial power during the post-classical period in the Indian subcontinent, which originated in the region of Bengal.
Pamela Gutman
Pamela Gutman (1944 – 31 March 2015) was an Australian researcher, art historian, and civil servant.
Pandu Rajar Dhibi
Pandu Rajar Dhibi in the valley of the river Ajay is an Archaeological site in Ausgram II block in the Sadar North subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Pandua, Malda
Pandua, also historically known as Hazrat Pandua and later Firuzabad, is a ruined city in the Malda district of the Indian state of West Bengal.
Pangkhu language
Pangkhua (Pangkhu), or Paang, is a Kuki-Chin language primarily spoken in Bangladesh.
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Parliamentary republic
A parliamentary republic is a republic that operates under a parliamentary system of government where the executive branch (the government) derives its legitimacy from and is accountable to the legislature (the parliament).
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Partition of Bengal (1905)
The first Partition of Bengal (1905) was a territorial reorganization of the Bengal Presidency implemented by the authorities of the British Raj.
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Partition of Bengal (1947)
The Partition of Bengal in 1947, also known as the Second Partition of Bengal, part of the Partition of India, divided the British Indian Bengal Province along the Radcliffe Line between the Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan.
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Partition of India
The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan.
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Paul Wheatley (geographer)
Paul Wheatley (b. Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, 11 October 1921 – d. Porter County, Indiana 30 October 1999) was a geographer who came to specialize in the historical geography of Southeast Asia and East Asia.
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Peacock Throne
The Peacock Throne (Hindustani: Mayūrāsana, Sanskrit: मयूरासन, Urdu: تخت طاؤس, تخت طاووس, Takht-i Tāvūs) was the imperial throne of Hindustan.
Penang
Penang (Pulau Pinang) is a Malaysian state located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia along the Strait of Malacca.
Permanent Settlement
The Permanent Settlement, also known as the Permanent Settlement of Bengal, was an agreement between the East India Company and landlords of Bengal to fix revenues to be raised from land that had far-reaching consequences for both agricultural methods and productivity in the entire British Empire and the political realities of the Indian countryside.
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Petrapole
Petrapole is the Indian side of Petrapole-Benapole border checkpoint between India and Benapole of Bangladesh, on the Bangladesh-India border, near Bongaon in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.
Pitha
Pithas are a variety of food similar to pancakes, dumplings or fritters, originating from the Indian subcontinent, common in Bangladesh and India.
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Pnar language
Pnar (Ka Ktien Pnar), also known as Jaiñtia is an Austroasiatic language spoken in India and Bangladesh.
Pohela Boishakh
Pohela Boishakh (পহেলা বৈশাখ)) is the Bengali New Year celebrated on 14 April in Bangladesh and 15 April in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Jharkhand and Assam (Goalpara and Barak Valley). It is a festival based on the spring harvest—which marks the first day of the new year in the official calendar of Bangladesh.
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Pohela Falgun
Pohela Falgun (পহেলা ফাল্গুন, Pôhela Falgun or পয়লা ফাল্গুন, Pôela Falgun), also known as the first day of Spring of the Bengali month Falgun, is a festival celebrated in Bangladesh.
Population density
Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area.
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Port of Ashuganj
The Port of Ashuganj is a notable river port in eastern Bangladesh.
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Port of Barisal
The Port of Barisal, officially known as Barisal River Port is the second largest and busiest river port in Bangladesh after Dhaka in terms of passenger traffic.
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Port of Chittagong
The Chittagong Port (চট্টগ্রাম বন্দর) is the main seaport of Bangladesh.
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Port of Kolkata
Port of Kolkata or Kolkata Port (Bengali: কলকাতা বন্দর), officially known as Syama Prasad Mookerjee Port (formerly Kolkata Port Trust or Port of Calcutta), is the only riverine major port in India, in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal, around from the sea.
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Port of Mongla
The Port of Mongla is a link seaport, located at Mongla Upazila, Khulna Division, Bangladesh.
Port of Narayanganj
The Port of Narayanganj is a river port in Narayanganj, Bangladesh.
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Port of Pangaon
The Port of Pangaon is an inland port and container terminal on the Buriganga River in Dhaka District, Bangladesh.
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Port of Payra
The Port of Payra is a seaport located at Kalapara in Patuakhali, Bangladesh.
Portuguese Empire
The Portuguese Empire (Império Português), also known as the Portuguese Overseas or the Portuguese Colonial Empire, was composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the Kingdom of Portugal, and later the Republic of Portugal.
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Portuguese settlement in Chittagong
Chittagong, the second largest city and main port of Bangladesh, was home to a thriving trading post of the Portuguese Empire in the East in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Potassium nitrate
Potassium nitrate is a chemical compound with a sharp, salty, bitter taste and the chemical formula.
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Pranab Mukherjee
Pranab Mukherjee (11 December 1935 – 31 August 2020) was an Indian politician who served as the 13th president of India from 2012 until 2017.
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Pratapgarh Kingdom
The Pratapgarh Kingdom (প্রতাপগড় রাজ্য) was a medieval state in the north-east of the Indian subcontinent.
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Presidencies and provinces of British India
The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.
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Presidency division
Presidency division is an administrative division within the Indian state of West Bengal.
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President of Bangladesh
The President of Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশের রাষ্ট্রপতি —) officially the president of the People's Republic of Bangladesh (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশের রাষ্ট্রপতি —) is the head of state of Bangladesh and commander-in-chief of the Bangladesh Armed Forces.
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President of India
The president of India (IAST) is the head of state of the Republic of India.
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President's rule
In India, President's (or Governor’s) rule is the suspension of state government and imposition of direct Union government rule in a state.
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Presidential system
A presidential system, or single executive system, is a form of government in which a head of government, typically with the title of president, leads an executive branch that is separate from the legislative branch in systems that use separation of powers.
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Prime Minister of Bengal
The prime minister of Bengal was the head of government of Bengal Province and the Leader of the House in the Bengal Legislative Assembly in British India.
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Prime Minister of India
The prime minister of India (ISO) is the head of government of the Republic of India.
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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom.
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Prince Vijaya
Prince Vijaya (c. 543–505 BCE) was a legendary king of Tambapanni, based in modern day Sri Lanka.
Proto-industrialization
Proto-industrialization is the regional development, alongside commercial agriculture, of rural handicraft production for external markets.
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Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.
Punch-marked coins
Punch-marked coins, also known as Aahat coins, are a type of early coinage of India, dating to between about the 6th and 2nd centuries BC.
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Punjab Province (British India)
The Punjab Province was a province of British India.
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Purba Medinipur district
Purba Medinipur (English: East Medinipur, alternative spelling Midnapore) district is an administrative unit in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics is a fundamental theory that describes the behavior of nature at and below the scale of atoms.
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Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was an Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance.
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Radcliffe Line
The Radcliffe Line was the boundary demarcated by the two boundary commissions for the provinces of Punjab and Bengal during the Partition of India. Bengal and Radcliffe Line are geography of India.
Rainforest
Rainforests are forests characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire.
Rajput
Rajput (from Sanskrit rājaputra meaning "son of a king"), also called Thakur, is a large multi-component cluster of castes, kin bodies, and local groups, sharing social status and ideology of genealogical descent originating from the Indian subcontinent.
Rajshahi
Rajshahi (রাজশাহী) is a metropolitan city and a major urban, administrative, commercial and educational centre of Bangladesh.
Rajshahi Division
Rajshahi Division (রাজশাহী বিভাগ) is one of the eight first-level administrative divisions of Bangladesh.
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Rajya Sabha
The Rajya Sabha (lit: "States' Assembly"), also known as the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India.
Rakhine language
Rakhine (ရခိုင်ဘာသာ, MLCTS: ra.hkuing bhasa), also known as Arakanese, is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in western Myanmar, primarily in the Rakhine State.
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Rakhine State
Rakhine State (Rakhine and), formerly known as Arakan State, is a state in Myanmar (Burma).
Rangpur Division
Rangpur Division (রংপুর বিভাগ) is one of the Divisions in Bangladesh.
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Rangpur, Bangladesh
Rangpur (City of Colour), is one of the major cities in Bangladesh and Rangpur Division.
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Rangpuri language
Rangpuri (Rangpuri: অংপুরি Ôṅgpuri or অমপুরি Ômpuri) is an eastern Indo-Aryan language of the Bengali-Assamese branch, spoken in Rangpur Division in Bangladesh, northern West Bengal and western Goalpara of Assam in India.
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Rarh region
Rarh region is a toponym for an area in the Indian subcontinent that lies between the Chota Nagpur Plateau on the West and the Ganges Delta on the East. Bengal and Rarh region are historical Indian regions and regions of India.
Rasgulla
Rasgulla (literally "syrup filled ball") is a syrupy dessert popular in the eastern part of South Asia.
Rashtrakutas
Rashtrakuta (IAST) (r. 753 – 982 CE) was a royal Indian dynasty ruling large parts of the Indian subcontinent between the 6th and 10th centuries.
Ratha Yatra
Ratha Yatra, or chariot festival, is any public procession in a chariot.
Ratna Manikya I
Ratna Manikya I (d. 1487), also known as Ratna Fa, was the Maharaja of Tripura from 1462 to the late 1480s.
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Raychaudhuri equation
In general relativity, the Raychaudhuri equation, or Landau–Raychaudhuri equation, is a fundamental result describing the motion of nearby bits of matter.
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Re-exportation
Re-exportation, also called entrepot trade, is a form of international trade in which a country exports goods which it previously imported without altering them.
Red Sea
The Red Sea is a sea inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia.
Revolutionary movement for Indian independence
The Revolutionary movement for Indian Independence was part of the Indian independence movement comprising the actions of violent underground revolutionary factions.
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Rhododendron
Rhododendron (rhododendra) is a very large genus of about 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae).
Rohingya genocide
The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the military of Myanmar.
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Rohingya language
Rohingya (Hanifi Rohingya:,,,Muhammad Ibrahim, (2013) Rohingya Text Book I. رُحَ࣪ڠۡگِ࣭ࢬ فࣤنَّ࣪رۡ كِتَفۡ لࣤمۡبࣤ࣪رۡ (١), Published by Rohingya fonna) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Rohingya people of Rakhine State, Myanmar.
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Rohingya people
The Rohingya people (Rohingya) are a stateless Indo-Aryan ethnic group who predominantly follow Islam and reside in Rakhine State, Myanmar.
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Roman Egypt
Roman Egypt; was an imperial province of the Roman Empire from 30 BC to AD 641.
Rosie Llewellyn-Jones
Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones MBE is a well-known British scholar with an expertise on Lucknow and its culture.
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Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
Ruknuddin Barbak Shah
Ruknuddīn Bārbak Shāh (রোকনউদ্দীন বারবক শাহ, رکن الدین باربک شاه; r. 1459–1474) was the son and successor of Sultan Nasiruddin Mahmud Shah.
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S. D. Burman
Sachin Dev Burman (1 October 1906 – 31 October 1975) was an Indian music director and singer.
Saha ionization equation
In physics, the Saha ionization equation is an expression that relates the ionization state of a gas in thermal equilibrium to the temperature and pressure.
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Sak language
Sak (also known as Cak, Chak, or Tsak) is a Sino-Tibetan language of the Sal branch spoken in Bangladesh and Myanmar by the Chak people.
Samatata
Samataṭa (Brahmi script: sa-ma-ta-ṭa) was an ancient geopolitical division of Bengal in the eastern Indian subcontinent.
Sampan
A sampan is a relatively flat-bottomed wooden boat found in East, Southeast, and South Asia.
Sandakphu
Sandakphu or Sandakpur (3636 m; 11,930 ft) is a mountain peak in the Singalila Ridge on the border between India and Nepal.
Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages.
Sanskrit literature
Sanskrit literature broadly comprises all literature in the Sanskrit language.
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Santal people
The Santal (or Santhal) are an Austroasiatic-speaking Munda ethnic group of the Indian subcontinent.
Santali language
Santali (Ol Chiki:, Bengali:, Odia:, Devanagari), also known as Santal or Santhali, is the most widely-spoken language of the Munda subfamily of the Austroasiatic languages, related to Ho and Mundari, spoken mainly in the Indian states of Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Odisha, Tripura and West Bengal by Santals.
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Saptagram
Saptagram (colloquially called Satgaon) was an ancient major port, the chief city and sometimes capital of southern Bengal, in ancient and medieval times of Bengal, the location presently being in the Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Sarat Chandra Bose
Sarat Chandra Bose (6 September 1889 – 20 February 1950) was an Indian barrister and independence activist.
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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (also spelt as Sarat Chandra Chatterjee and Saratchandra Chatterji; 15 September 1876 – 16 January 1938), was a Bengali novelist and short story writer of the early 20th century.
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Sari
A sari (sometimes also saree or sadi)The name of the garment in various regional languages include.
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Sasanian Empire
The Sasanian Empire or Sassanid Empire, and officially known as Eranshahr ("Land/Empire of the Iranians"), was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th to 8th centuries.
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Satyendra Nath Bose
Satyendra Nath Bose (1 January 1894 – 4 February 1974) was an Indian theoretical physicist and mathematician.
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Satyendranath Dutta
Satyendranath Dutta (also spelt Satyendranath Datta or Satyendra Nath Dutta; সত্যেন্দ্রনাথ দত্ত) (1882 – 25 June 1922), a Bengali poet, is considered the "wizard of rhymes" (or 'ছন্দের জাদুকর'; chhonder jadukar in Bengali).
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Seamanship
Seamanship is the art, competence, and knowledge of operating a ship, boat or other craft on water.
Seberang Perai
Seberang Perai is a city in the Malaysian state of Penang.
Sena dynasty
The Sena dynasty was a Hindu dynasty during the early medieval period on the Indian subcontinent, that ruled from Bengal through the 11th and 12th centuries.
Shah
Shah (شاه) is a royal title that was historically used by the leading figures of Indian and Iranian monarchies.
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Shah Ismail Ghazi
Shah Ismail Ghazi (শাহ ইসমাঈল গাজী) was a 15th-century Sufi Muslim preacher based in Bengal.
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Shah Jahan
Mirza Shahab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram (5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), also known as Shah Jahan I, was the fifth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1628 until 1658.
Shah Jalal
Jalāl Mujarrad Kunyāʾī, popularly known as Shah Jalal (Shah Jalal), was a celebrated Sufi figure of Bengal.
Shah Shuja (Mughal prince)
Mirza Shah Shuja (Persian: میرزا شاه شجاع) (23 June 1616 – 7 February 1661) was the second son of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and Empress Mumtaz Mahal.
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Shaista Khan
Mirza Abu Talib (b. 22 November 1600 – d. 1694), better known as Shaista Khan, was a Moghul General and the Subahdar of Mughal Bengal, he was maternal uncle to the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, he acted as a key figure during his reign, Shaista Khan initially governed the Deccan, where he clashed with the Maratha ruler Shivaji, However, he was most notable for his tenure as the governor of Bengal from 1664 to 1688, Under Shaista Khan's authority, the city of Dhaka and Mughal power in the province attained its greatest heights.
Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah
Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah was the founder of the Sultanate of Bengal and its inaugural Ilyas Shahi dynasty.
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Shantiniketan
Shantiniketan is a neighbourhood of Bolpur town in the Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum district in West Bengal, India, approximately 152 km north of Kolkata.
Shashanka
Shashanka (IAST: Śaśāṅka, Sanskrit: शशाङ्क Bengali: শশাঙ্ক) was the first independent king of a unified polity in the Bengal region, called the Gauda Kingdom.
Sheikh Hasina
Sheikh Hasina Wazed (Śēkha hāsinā ōẏājēda; born 28 September 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician and the tenth prime minister of Bangladesh from June 1996 to July 2001 and again serving since January 2009.
Shell money
Shell money is a medium of exchange similar to coin money and other forms of commodity money, and was once commonly used in many parts of the world.
Shillong
Shillong is a hill station and the capital of Meghalaya, a state in northeastern India.
Shipbuilding
Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.
Shorea robusta
Shorea robusta, the sal tree, sāla, shala, sakhua, or sarai, is a species of tree in the family Dipterocarpaceae.
Shreekrishna Kirtana
Shreekrishna Kirtana Kabya (শ্রীকৃষ্ণকীর্তন কাব্য) is a Bengali pastoral Vaishnava drama in verse composed by Boru Chandidas.
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Sikandar Shah
Abul Mujāhid Sikandar Shāh (আবুল মুজাহিদ সিকান্দর শাহ, ابو المجاهد سكندر شاه), commonly known as Sikandar Shah; was the second Sultan of Bengal and the Ilyas Shahi dynasty.
Silchar
Silchar is a city and the headquarters of the Cachar district of the state of Assam, India.
Siliguri
Siliguri, also known as Shiliguri, is a major tier-II city in West Bengal.
Silk Road
The Silk Road was a network of Eurasian trade routes active from the second century BCE until the mid-15th century.
Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.
Soil fertility
Soil fertility refers to the ability of soil to sustain agricultural plant growth, i.e. to provide plant habitat and result in sustained and consistent yields of high quality.
Somapura Mahavihara
Somapura Mahavihara (Shompur Môhabihar) or Paharpur Buddhist Vihara (Pāhāṛpur baud'dha bihār) in Paharpur, Badalgachhi, Naogaon, Bangladesh is among the best known Buddhist viharas or monasteries in the Indian Subcontinent and is one of the most important archaeological sites in the country.
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Sonargaon
Sonargaon (সোনারগাঁও; pronounced in Bengali as Show-naar-gaa; lit. Golden Hamlet) is a historic city in central Bangladesh.
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union of states in South Asia.
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Sovereign state
A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.
St. Martin's Island
Saint Martin Island (Senṭmarṭin dip) is a small island (area only 3 km2) in the northeastern part of the Bay of Bengal, about 9 km south of the tip of the Cox's Bazar-Teknaf peninsula, and forming the southernmost part of Bangladesh.
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State governments of India
Union Government of India are the governments ruling over 28 states and 3 union territories of India and the head of the Council of Ministers in a state is the Chief Minister.
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State legislative assemblies of India
The State Legislative Assembly, or Vidhan Sabha, also called Vidhana Sabha, or Saasana Sabha, is a legislative body in each of the states and certain union territories of India.
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State religion
A state religion (also called official religion) is a religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state.
States and union territories of India
India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 entities.
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Strait of Malacca
The Strait of Malacca is a narrow stretch of water, long and from 65 to 250 km (40–155 mi) wide, between the Malay Peninsula to the northeast and the Indonesian island of Sumatra to the southwest, connecting the Andaman Sea (Indian Ocean) and the South China Sea (Pacific Ocean).
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Straits Settlements
The Straits Settlements were a group of British territories located in Southeast Asia.
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Subedar
Subedar is a military rank in the militaries of South Asia roughly equivalent to that of a warrant officer.
Subhas Chandra Bose
Subhas Chandra Bose (23 January 1897 – 18 August 1945) was an Indian nationalist whose defiance of British authority in India made him a hero among many Indians, but his wartime alliances with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan left a legacy vexed by authoritarianism, anti-Semitism, and military failure.
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Sugarcane
Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production.
Suhma Kingdom
Suhma Kingdom was an ancient kingdom during the Late Vedic period on the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent, which originated in the region of Bengal.
Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia.
Summer capital
A summer capital is a city used as an administrative capital during extended periods of particularly hot summer weather.
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.
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Sundarbans
Sundarbans (pronounced) is a mangrove area in the delta formed by the confluence of the Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna Rivers in the Bay of Bengal. Bengal and Sundarbans are regions of India.
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Sunil Gangopadhyay or Sunil Ganguly (7 September 1934 – 23 October 2012) was an Indian poet, novelist, short story writer, historian, and critic in the Bengali language.
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Sur Empire
The Sur Empire was an empire ruled by the Afghan-origin Sur dynasty in northern India for nearly 16 or 18 years, between 1538/1540 and 1556, with Sasaram (in modern-day Bihar) serving as its capital.
Surfing
Surfing is a surface water sport in which an individual, a surfer (or two in tandem surfing), uses a board to ride on the forward section, or face, of a moving wave of water, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore.
Syed Mujtaba Ali
Syed Mujtaba Ali (সৈয়দ মুজতবা আলী,; 13 September 1904 – 11 February 1974) was a Bengali writer, journalist, travel enthusiast, academic, scholar and linguist.
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Sylhet
Sylhet (Bengali: সিলেট), is a metropolitan city located in the northeastern region of Bangladesh.
Sylhet Division
Sylhet Division, সিলেট বিভাগ) is the northeastern division of Bangladesh. It is bordered by the Indian states of Meghalaya, Assam and Tripura to the north, east and south respectively, and by the divisions of Chittagong to the southwest and Dhaka and Mymensingh to the west. Prior to the Partition in 1947, it included Karimganj subdivision (presently in Barak Valley, Assam, India).
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Sylheti language
Sylheti (Sylheti Nagri:, síloṭi,; সিলেটি, sileṭi) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by an estimated 11 million people, primarily in the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh, Barak Valley of Assam, and northern parts of Tripura in India.
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Tabla
A tabla is a pair of hand drums from the Indian subcontinent.
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Tahmima Anam
Tahmima Anam (তাহমিমা আনাম; born 8 October 1975) is a Bangladeshi-born British writer, novelist and columnist.
Tanchangya language
The Tanchangya language is one of the eleven indigenous languages in Chittagong Hill Tracts in present-day Bangladesh, and an ethnic group in the Indian states of Tripura and Mizoram, as well as Rakhine State in Myanmar.
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Tanchangya people
The Tanchangya people, Tanchangyas or Tonchongyas are an Chinwin valley origin ethnic group living in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh, Indian states of Tripura and Mizoram, and Rakhine state of Myanmar.
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Tangail
Tangail (টাঙ্গাইল) is a city of Tangail District in central Bangladesh.
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay
Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay (23 July 1898 – 14 September 1971) was an Indian novelist who wrote in the Bengali language.
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Teak
Teak (Tectona grandis) is a tropical hardwood tree species in the family Lamiaceae.
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Teknaf Wildlife Sanctuary
Teknaf Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area in the Cox's Bazar District of southern Bangladesh comprising a hill forest area of.
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Terai
The Terai or Tarai is to a lowland region in parts of northern India and southern Nepal that lies to the south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas, the Sivalik Hills and north of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Bengal and Terai are regions of India.
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Terracotta
Terracotta, also known as terra cotta or terra-cotta, is a clay-based non-vitreous ceramicOED, "Terracotta";, MFA Boston, "Cameo" database fired at relatively low temperatures.
Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution
Textile manufacture during the British Industrial Revolution was centred in south Lancashire and the towns on both sides of the Pennines in the United Kingdom.
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Thakurmar Jhuli
Thakurmar Jhuli (ঠাকুরমার ঝুলি; Grandmother's Bag) is a collection of Bengali folk tales and fairy tales.
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Thalassocracy
A thalassocracy or thalattocracy, sometimes also maritime empire, is a state with primarily maritime realms, an empire at sea, or a seaborne empire.
Thanjavur
Thanjavur, also known as Thanjai, previously known as Tanjore,Pletcher 2010, p. 195 is a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
The Economic Times
The Economic Times is an Indian English-language business-focused daily newspaper.
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The Financial Express (India)
The Financial Express is an Indian English-language business newspaper owned by The Indian Express Group.
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The World Factbook
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.
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Tibet
Tibet (Böd), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about.
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Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism is a form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia.
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Tibeto-Burman languages
The Tibeto-Burman languages are the non-Sinitic members of the Sino-Tibetan language family, over 400 of which are spoken throughout the Southeast Asian Massif ("Zomia") as well as parts of East Asia and South Asia.
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Titumir
Syed Mir Nisar Ali (27 January 1782 – 19 November 1831), better known as Titumir (তিতুমীর), was a Bengali revolutionary, who developed a strand of Muslim nationalism coupled with agrarian and political consciousness.
Tributary state
A tributary state is a pre-modern state in a particular type of subordinate relationship to a more powerful state which involved the sending of a regular token of submission, or tribute, to the superior power (the suzerain).
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Trinamool Congress
The All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the state of West Bengal.
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Tripura
Tripura is a state in Northeast India.
Tripura (princely state)
Tripura State, also known as Hill Tipperah, was a princely state in India during the period of the British Raj and for some two years after the departure of the British.
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Tripura Merger Agreement
The Tripura Merger Agreement was the official agreement under which the erstwhile Kingdom of Tripuri joined the state of India.
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Twipra Kingdom
The Twipra Kingdom (Sanskrit: Tripura, Anglicized: Tippera) was one of the largest historical kingdoms of the Tripuri people in Northeast India.
Umayyad Caliphate
The Umayyad Caliphate or Umayyad Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Umawiyya) was the second caliphate established after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
Union territory
A union territory is a type of administrative division in the Republic of India.
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United Bengal
United Bengal was a proposal to transform Bengal Province into an undivided, sovereign state at the time of the Partition of India in 1947.
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a sovereign state in Northwestern Europe that was established by the union in 1801 of the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland.
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United States patent law
The United States is considered to have the most favorable legal regime for inventors and patent owners in the world.
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University of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing.
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Urdu
Urdu (اُردُو) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.
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Vajjabhumi
Vajjabhumi was a part of Rarh in ancient times. Bengal and Vajjabhumi are historical Indian regions.
Vanga Kingdom
Vaṅga was an ancient kingdom and geopolitical division within the Ganges delta in the Indian subcontinent.
Varanasi
Varanasi (ISO:,; also Benares, Banaras or Kashi) is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that has a central place in the traditions of pilgrimage, death, and mourning in the Hindu world.
Varendra
Varendra (বরেন্দ্র), also known as Barind (বারিন্দ), was an ancient and historical territory of Northern Bengal, now mostly in Bangladesh and a little portion in the Indian state of West Bengal and Eastern Bihar.
Varman dynasty
The Varman dynasty (350–650) was the first historical dynasty of the Kamarupa kingdom.
Vassal state
A vassal state is any state that has a mutual obligation to a superior state or empire, in a status similar to that of a vassal in the feudal system in medieval Europe.
Victoria Memorial, Kolkata
The Victoria Memorial is a large marble monument on the Maidan in Central Kolkata, having its entrance on the Queen's Way.
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War elephant
A war elephant was an elephant that was trained and guided by humans for combat.
War language
War (also known as Waar or War-Jaintia) is an Austroasiatic language in the Khasic branch spoken by about 16,000 people in Bangladesh and 51,000 people in India.
Wari-Bateshwar ruins
The Wari-Bateshwar (উয়ারী-বটেশ্বর,Uari-Bôṭeshshor) ruins in Narsingdi, Dhaka Division, Bangladesh is one of the oldest urban archaeological sites in Bangladesh.
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West Bengal
West Bengal (Bengali: Poshchim Bongo,, abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India.
Westminster system
The Westminster system, or Westminster model, is a type of parliamentary government that incorporates a series of procedures for operating a legislature, first developed in England.
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Wetland
A wetland is a distinct semi-aquatic ecosystem whose groundcovers are flooded or saturated in water, either permanently, for years or decades, or only seasonally for a shorter periods.
White-throated kingfisher
The white-throated kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis) also known as the white-breasted kingfisher is a tree kingfisher, widely distributed in Asia from the Sinai east through the Indian subcontinent to China and Indonesia.
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World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.
World Bank Group
The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries.
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World economy
The world economy or global economy is the economy of all humans in the world, referring to the global economic system, which includes all economic activities conducted both within and between nations, including production, consumption, economic management, work in general, financial transactions and trade of goods and services.
World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland that regulates and facilitates international trade.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Xuanzang
Xuanzang ((Hsüen Tsang); 6 April 6025 February 664), born Chen Hui / Chen Yi (/), also known by his Sanskrit Dharma name Mokṣadeva, was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveler, and translator.
Zainul Abedin
Zainul Abedin (29 December 1914 – 28 May 1976), also known as Shilpacharya (Master of Art) was a Bangladeshi painter.
Zamindar
A zamindar in the Indian subcontinent was an autonomous or semi-autonomous feudal ruler of a zamindari (feudal estate).
Zamindars of Bengal
The Zamindars of Bengal were zamindars (hereditary landlords) of the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent (now divided between Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal).
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Zerat
Zerat is a land ownership system in early colonial India.
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Zheng He
Zheng He (also romanized Cheng Ho; 1371–1433/1435) was a Chinese fleet admiral, explorer, diplomat, and bureaucrat during the early Ming dynasty (1368–1644).
Zia Haider Rahman
Zia Haider Rahman is a British novelist and broadcaster.
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0
0 (zero) is a number representing an empty quantity.
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1876 Bengal cyclone
The Great Backerganj Cyclone of 1876 (29 October – 1 November 1876) was one of the deadliest tropical cyclones in history.
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1947 Sylhet referendum
The 1947 Sylhet referendum was held in the Sylhet District of the Assam Province of British India to decide whether the district would remain in Undivided Assam and therefore within the post-independence Dominion of India, or leave Assam for East Bengal and consequently join the newly created Dominion of Pakistan.
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1st millennium BC
The 1st millennium BC, also known as the last millennium BC, was the period of time lasting from the years 1000 BC to 1 BC (10th to 1st centuries BC; in astronomy: JD –). It encompasses the Iron Age in the Old World and sees the transition from the Ancient Near East to classical antiquity.
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See also
Geography of Bangladesh
- Bangladesh Geographical Society
- Bangladesh Geological Society
- Bangladesh–India border
- Barind Tract
- Bengal
- Bengal Foredeep
- Countries of the Bay of Bengal
- Dahagram–Angarpota
- Eastern South Asia
- Extreme points of Bangladesh
- Forests of Bangladesh
- Geography of Bangladesh
- Geological Survey of Bangladesh
- Geology of Bangladesh
- Greater Bangladesh
- Madhupur tract
- Names of Chittagong
- North Bengal
- Protected areas of Bangladesh
- South Bengal
- Subdivisions of Bangladesh
- Survey of Bangladesh
- Tetulia Corridor
- Time in Bangladesh
- Tin Bigha Corridor
Geography of South Asia
- Balochistan
- Bengal
- Geography of the British Indian Ocean Territory
- Geology of the Himalayas
- Himalayas
- Jhum
- Kafiristan
- List of national capitals in East, South, and Southeast Asia
- Punjab
- Regions of South Asia
Subdivisions of British India
- Agencies of British India
- Bengal
- Bohmong Circle
- British annexation of Assam
- Ceded and Conquered Provinces
- Central Provinces
- Central Provinces and Berar
- Chakma Circle
- Colonial Assam
- Districts of British India
- Divisions of British India
- Gadhia, Gujarat
- Kankrej thana
- Mong Circle
- North-Western Provinces
- Northern Circars
- Prant
- Presidencies of British India
- Presidency of Coromandel and Bengal Settlements
- Princely states of India
- Provinces of British India
- Residencies of British India
- Saugor and Nerbudda Territories
- Subdivisions of British India
- Trucial States
- Tulsipur State
- United Provinces of Agra and Oudh
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