Bengali Culture

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Re: Bengali Culture

@mahool

Bangladesh was used to East Pakistan. We lived 24 years together, during this time our film industry used the talent from East Pakistan, but we never know the important aspects and events of Bengali culture and lifestyle.

What are important events in Bengali culture?
@Deeba1234

We lived under one domain for 24 hours, but to say we lived together is technically incorrect. Actually, when you consider a group inferior, then living for centuries doesn’t put you together.

@OYMWA

Bengal goes back even further.

Bengal has a rich history. Since Calcutta was the capital for the British East India Company, they were exposed to western ways earlier than the rest of the subcontinent. The result was western education that helped mold many leaders whose thinking directly contributed to the first war of independence. And these leaders were from all walks of life…religious, education, political, philosophers etc. Eg. Tagore ( who wrote national anthems for both India and Bangladesh), and they were popular with the public.

Realizing that Bengal could pose a big problem for them, the British divided it into two parts in 1905: West Bengal and East Bengal mostly along religious lines. This was part of their divide-and-rule doctrine. This back-fired and they had to re-unite them in 1911. That division finally happened in 1947. The West Bengal that is now in India later split into 3 states ( or 4, don’t remember ). East Bengal was part of Pakistan and later became Bangladesh.

Even Urdu is flourished in Calcutta. Fort William College.

@SindSagar

I am curious if someone has heard or read about the legendary cloth called ** “Dhaka ke Malmal” ** a cloth so fine that 16 yards rolled up would pass thru an angoothi?

heard it. Also ‘Bengal ka kala jadu’ is quite famous. Even we got Aamil Junaid Bengali in Karachi

@the_kaur

One this is even more evident that Hindu Bengali was way ahead of Muslim Bengali in everything, from art to science to administration.

May be this phenomenon is from post British colonolisation. This was prevalent in almost all areas including Sindh.