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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British East India Company and Its International Trades British East India Company played a non-ignorable role in history and economic field. From 1600 when it was established by a group of British entrepreneurs to 1874‚ in which it was dissolved eventually‚ the company not only monopolized various international trades‚ but also acted significant military power by the support of British government. Its aim is plundering other countries’ resources and make their own country wealthy. But its failure
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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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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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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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The question as to what would be the state language of Pakistan was raised immediately after its creation. Muslim scholars and leaders logically believed that Urdu‚ only spoken by 7%‚ should be the lingua franca because it had gained a reputation as the cultural symbol of subcontinental Muslims. However‚ eastern Pakistanis regarded Urdu as the language of the elite‚ not the language of the people in the eastern province - who made up 56% of Pakistan’s population - where Bangla was the mother tongue
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Morley-Minto Reform was introduced because Indians started pressuring the government; the congress started to demand for Home Rule in 1906 and there was boycotts of British goods and violent outbreaks started in Bengal. The riot in Bengal began from Lord Curzon‚ who was the Viceroy at the time. Bengal was too large to administer and therefore‚
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Compare and contrast socio-cultural of northern Europe and Middle East. Human beings differentiate and organise themselves into functioning communities from a particular terrain or location. This grouping into functional behaviour or manners is what we name as society that relates to communal living. Communal living includes social classes‚ problems as well as matters affecting human welfare. Every society has its own norms‚ a common or a dominant culture. Culture is described to be distinctive
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Differences of East and West European Economies Before and After Communism After World War II‚ Europe was divided along the Iron Curtain‚ a political‚ military‚ and ideological barrier constructed by the Soviet Union to separate itself and its allies from noncommunist areas. The West‚ defined by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)‚ members were Belgium‚ Canada‚ Denmark‚ France‚ Iceland‚ Italy‚ Luxembourg‚ the Netherlands‚ Norway‚ Portugal‚ the United Kingdom‚ and the United States
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