Bengali Hindus 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.
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29 Facts About Bengali Hindus
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Bengali Hindus speak Bengali, which belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family and adhere to Shaktism or Vaishnavism of their native religion Hinduism with some regional deities.
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Around the 8th century, the Bengali language branched off from Magadhi Prakrit, a derivative of Sanskrit that was prevalent in the eastern region of the Indian Subcontinent at that time.
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Bengali Hindus were at the forefront of the Bengal Renaissance in the 19th century, the Bengal region was noted for its participation in the struggle for independence from the British rule.
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Millions of Bengali Hindus numbering around 25,19,557 have migrated from East Bengal and settled in West Bengal and other states of India.
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Bengali Hindus are a religious group, native to the Indian subcontinent, speaking a broad range of Indo-Aryan and Dravidian languages and adhering to the native belief systems, rooted in the Vedas.
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The Bengali Hindus are constituted into various ethno-linguistic subgroups, which in spite of being culturally diverse, share a common bond of unity.
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In India, Bengali generally refers to Bengali Hindus, excluding a significant number of Bengali Muslims who are ethnically Bengalis.
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Bengali Hindus constitute of numerous endogamous castes, which are sometimes further subdivided into endogamous subgroups.
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The Bengali Hindus were traditionally governed by the Dayabhaga school of law, as opposed to the Mitaksara school of law, which governed the other Hindu ethno-linguistic groups.
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The Bengali Hindus who emigrated from East Bengal at the wake of the Partition and settled in West Bengal, came to known as the bangals, while the native Bengali Hindus of West Bengal came to known as ghotis.
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Bengali Hindus successfully fought against his adversaries Harshavardhana and Bhaskaravarmana and protected the sovereignty of his kingdom.
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The Pala were followed by the Senas who made far reaching changes in the social structure of Bengali Hindus, introducing 36 new castes and orthodox institutions like Kulinism.
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Bengali Hindus got favours from the British rulers, and experienced development in education and social mobility.
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On 28 September 1905, the day of Mahalaya, 50,000 Bengali Hindus resolved before the Mother at Kalighat to boycott foreign goods and stop employing foreigners.
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Bengali Hindus revolutionaries collaborated with the Germans during the War to liberate British India.
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However, after the genocide of 1950, Bengali Hindus fled East Bengal in thousands and settled in West Bengal.
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In 1964, tens of thousands of Bengali Hindus were massacred in East Pakistan and most of the Bengali Hindu owned businesses and properties of Dhaka were permanently destroyed.
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On 19 May 1961, eleven Bengali Hindus protesters were killed by Assamese police fired on a demonstration at the Silchar railway station.
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Out of 21 million population of Dhaka as far estimated by 2020, Bengali Hindus are at present the second largest community just after Bengali Muslims in Dhaka numbering around at 1,051,167 and are mainly concentrated in Shankhari Bazaar.
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Barak Valley comprising the present districts of Cachar, Karimganj and Hailakandi is contiguous to Sylhet, where the Bengali Hindus, according to historian J B Bhattacharjee, had settled well before the colonial period, influencing the culture of Dimasa Kacaharis.
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Bengali Hindus first came into Assam's Brahmaputra valley during the time of British era of 1826 from neighbouring Bengal region as colonial official workers, bankers, railway employees, bureaucrats and later on during the time Partition of Bengal in 1947.
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The fourth patches numbering around 347,555 have just arrived after Bangladesh liberation war of 1971 as refugees and most of them being Bengali speaking Hindus have decided to stay back in Assam permanently afterwards.
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The resident and the migrant Bengali Hindus population benefitted from the culture and language of the royal house of Tripura thanks to embracement of Hinduism and adoption of Bengali Hindus as the state language by the Maharajahs of Tripura much before Indian independence.
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Since the partition of India, many Bengali Hindus have migrated to Tripura as refugees fleeing religious persecution in Muslim-majority East Pakistan, especially after 1949 and this is primarily attributed by the immigration of 610,000 Bengalis — the figure almost equal to the State's total population in 1951 — from East Pakistan between 1947 and 1951.
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Bengali Hindus is the most widely spoken language in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, despite it lacking official status.
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Bengali cuisine is mainly influenced by the diet habits similar to the Hindus and includes a very large variety of sweets and dishes.
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The Bengali Hindus sweets includes desserts made by milk, includes Rasgulla, Sandesh, Cham cham, etc.
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Bengali Hindus generally follow the beliefs and practices that fall under the broad umbrella of Hinduism.
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