adventures aboard the whale ship‚ Pequoud‚ which mainly include chasing a whale called Moby Dick. In Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder‚ Alberto Knox encourages Sophie to think about her life philosophically through various examples from history. In East of Eden‚ John Steinbeck follows the life of the Trusk and Hamilton families‚ a basic portrayal of good vs evil‚ and how you can choose which one to be. Throughout Moby Dick‚ the theme of an unavoidable destiny is clear as demonstrated by Captain
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subcontinent in 2 well 3 really counting what is now Bangladesh on religious lines. The bare details of 1947 and its legacy are blunt. The territorial partition that created modern India and Pakistan involved the internal division of Punjab and Bengal provinces‚ which - in unimaginable conditions of collapse of authority‚ flight‚ and massacre - resulted in the forced movement of 20 million people (Hindus and Sikhs to India and Muslims to Pakistan) and approximately 1.5 million deaths. Muslims
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‘St. Thomas Christians’ there are a living proof of it. Yet‚ many a Muslim and Hindu in India‚ Pakistan‚ and Bangladesh wrongly consider Christianity a recent phenomenon and a foreign one at that. The Advent of the Portuguese and Christianity in Bengal: Renowned Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope of South Africa in 1498 and landed at Calicut (present Kozikode of India) by discovering the sea-route to India. From 1500 onwards‚ the Portuguese established their power
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European colonialism paved the way for new nations to develop in the Middle East; however‚ they additionally caused the fall of other nations and empires. Great Britain‚ France‚ and Italy provided financial and geographical advantages for Middle Eastern countries‚ but for the most part‚ negatively affected the government and politics of those same Middle Eastern countries. By funding the projects and events taken place in the nations‚ the European nations formed alliances and created great influence
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Swadeshi Movement emanated from the partition of bengal‚ 1905 and continued up to 1908. It was the most successful of the pre-Gandhian movements. Initially the partition plan was opposed through an intensive use of conventional ’moderate’ methods of press campaigns‚ numerous meetings and petitions‚ and big conferences at the calcutta town hall in March 1904 and January 1905. The evident and total failure of such techniques led to a search for new forms - boycott of British goods‚ rakhi bandhan and
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Preface Bangladesh is largely ethnically homogeneous. Indeed‚ its name derives from the Bengali ethno-linguistic group‚ which comprises 98% of the population. Bengalis‚ who also predominate in the West Bengal province of India‚ are one of the most populous ethnic groups in the world. Variations in Bengali culture and language do exist of course. There are many dialects of Bengali spoken throughout the region. The dialect spoken by those in Chittagong and Sylhet are particularly
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sacrifice. Historical Background: The martial tradition of Bengal has its roots in the Bengal Army during Mughal rule since the early 18th century‚ where three successive Persian Muslim dynasties‚ namely Nasiri‚ Afshar and Najafi‚ ruled Bengal. During the Colonial Rule of the British‚ Bengal was principally a bulwark of British power and trade in the South Asian region. The British under Robert Clive defeated a 50000 strong Bengal Army of Nawab Siraj-ud - daullah in the battle of Plassey in 1757
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subcontinent and is bordered by India in the east‚ west and north; by a small part of Myanmar in the south-east and by the Bay of Bengal in the south. Bangladesh is mainly a flat alluvial plain‚ criss-crossed by the world’s three mighty river systems‚ namely the Padma‚ the Jamuna and the Meghna and their innumerable tributaries. The borders of present-day Bangladesh were established with the partition of Bengal and India in 1947‚ when the region became East Pakistan‚ part of the newly formed nation
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It was during this period that he published his famous papers in collaboration with Albert Einstein‚ most notably defining Bose-Einstein condensate. After independence from the British Empire in 1947 it gained prominence as the leading university in East Pakistan. The university was witness to another historical event‚ as it was in the campus of Dhaka University that the original flag of Bangladesh was unfurled for the first time‚ at a time of national crisis with the Bangladesh Liberation War looming
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Dhaka (Bengali: ঢাকা‚ pronounced: [ˈɖʱaka]; formerly spelled as Dacca[5]) is the capital city of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh. It is a megacity and one of the major cities of South Asia. Located on the east banks of the Buriganga River in the Ganges delta‚ Dhaka has an estimated population of more than 15 million people‚ making it the largest city in Bangladesh and the 9th largest city in the world.[6] It is known as the City of Mosques‚ and with 400‚000 cycle-rickshaws running on its streets
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