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 Bangladesh - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The borders of Bangladesh were set by the Partition of India in 1947, when it became the eastern wing of Pakistan (East Pakistan), separated from the western wing by 1,600 km (1,000 miles).
After the arrival of Indo-Aryans, Bengal was ruled by the Gupta Empire from the fourth to the sixth centuries CE.
When India was partitioned in 1947, Bengal was partitioned along religious lines, the western part going to India, while the eastern part joined Pakistan as a province called East Bengal (later renamed East Pakistan), with its capital at Dhaka.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bangladesh   (4146 words)

  
 Ritwik Ghatak notes
It should be noted that in addition to the 1947 Partition and the Bangladeshi War of Independence’s 1971 partition of East Pakistan and West Pakistan into Bangladesh and Pakistan, Bengal suffered another wrenching “partition” in the twentieth century —Lord Curzon’s 1905 partition of Bengal (then a British province) into East Bengal and West Bengal.
Britain reunified Bengal in 1911, but the provinces of Bihar and Orissa were created out of Bengali land and the central government’s capital was moved from Calcutta to Delhi, to be renamed New Delhi.
Reflections on Partition in the East (New Delhi: Vikas Publishing House Pvt Ltd, 1997) and Chakrabarty, “Remembered Villages: Representation of Hindu-Bengali Memories in the Aftermath of Partition.” It is important to emphasize here that in his films, Ghatak does not often directly address the plight of Bengali Muslims in post-Partition Bengal.
www.ejumpcut.org /archive/jc47.2005/ghatak/notes.html   (3413 words)

  
 Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Rabindranath Tagore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Later, when new poetic ideas started to evolve in Bengal, partly by young poets to break free from Tagore's influence, it was as if Tagore joined them, creating his own new poetic identity.
Tagore's music cannot really be seperated from his literature, because almost all of it was music for his songs, and they were oftened initially written as poems or written as a part of a novell, story or play.
However, among the Bangla-speaking people of West Bengal and Bangladesh, his literary legacy continues to inform an unusually vivid artistic and cultural life.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /Rabindranath_Tagore   (9479 words)

  
 Dumka city of Jharkhand - India
In this process the Santhal Tribes were allowed to infiltrate and settle in large number.
After the partition of Bengal, it also played a major role in the settlement of Bengali population and thus a good number of Bengali speaking population soon dominated the social and educational life.
In the next phase with the beginning of transport services and a bit of business and educational institutions, a good number of Bhojpuri speaking people made their way to Dumka.
www.bharatheritage.in /jharkhand/dumka.htm   (763 words)

  
 Partition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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