27 Facts About Bengali people

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The global Bengali people diaspora have well-established communities in the Middle East, Pakistan, Myanmar, the United Kingdom, the United States, Malaysia, Italy, Singapore, Maldives, Canada, Australia, Japan and South Korea.

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Term Bengali people is generally used to refer to someone whose linguistic, cultural or ancestral origins are from Bengal.

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Bengali people originated from Varendra in northern Bengal, and founded the Buddhist Pala Empire.

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4.

Usman Serajuddin, known as Akhi Siraj Bengali people, was a native of Gaur in western Bengal and became the Sultanate's court scholar during Ilyas Shah's reign.

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Many Bengali people laborers were taken as coolies to the British colonies in the Caribbean during the 1830s.

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Bengali people was the head of state of a parallel regime, the Azad Hind.

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Upwards of an estimated 300,000 to 3,000,000 Bengali people died in the conflict, particularly as a result of the 1971 Bangladesh genocide.

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Substantial populations descended from Bengali immigrants exist in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the United Kingdom where they form established communities of over 1 million people.

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The majority of the overseas Bengali people diaspora are Muslims as the act of seafaring was traditionally prohibited in Hinduism; a taboo known as kala pani.

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Introduction of Islam to the Bengali people has generated a connection to the Arabian Peninsula, as Muslims are required to visit the land once in their lifetime to complete the Hajj pilgrimage.

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11.

Several Bengali people sultans funded Islamic institutions in the Hejaz, which popularly became known by the Arabs as Bangali Madaris.

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12.

The first is Classical Bengali people, which was a historical form restricted to literary usage up until the late British period.

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The second is Standard Bengali people, which is the modern literary form, and is based upon the dialects of the divided Nadia region.

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The bulk of Bengali people Buddhists belong to the Bengali people-speaking Baruas who reside in Chittagong and Rakhine.

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Traditionally Bengali people men wore the jama, though the costumes such as the panjabi with selwar or pyjama have become more popular within the past three centuries.

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16.

Bengali people film is a glorious part of the history of world cinema.

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East and West Bengali people cuisines have many similarities, but many unique traditions at the same time.

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The timeline of Bengali people literature is divided into three periods - ancient, medieval and modern.

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Bengali people writers began exploring different themes through narratives and epics such as religion, culture, cosmology, love and history.

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20.

Bengali people Renaissance refers to a socio-religious reform movement during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, centered around the city of Calcutta and predominantly led by upper-caste Bengali people Hindus under the patronage of the British Raj who had created a reformed religion known as the Brahmo Samaj.

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21.

Bengali people's magnum opus Bishad Shindhu is a popular classic among Bengali readership.

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22.

Bengali people was the designer of Willis Tower, the tallest building in the world until 1998.

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Bengali people is considered one of the fathers of radio science, and is considered the father of Bengali science fiction.

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Bengali people is best known for his work on quantum mechanics in the early 1920s, providing the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.

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25.

Bengali people first hypothesised a physically tangible idea of photon.

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Bengali people's work allowed astronomers to accurately relate the spectral classes of stars to their actual temperatures.

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Nouka Baich is a Bengali people boat racing competition which takes place during and after the rainy season when much of the land goes under water.

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