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Bengal Subah (صوبه بنگاله)
Bengal Subah (صوبه بنگاله), the Mughal province of Bengal incorporated in 1576 after Rajmahal, governed by Nazim and Diwan, wealthy in textiles trade, and autonomous under nawabs from 1717 until the 1765 Diwani.
Bengal Sultanate
Bengal Sultanate: independent Muslim state in the Ganges delta, 1342-1576, founded by Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah; ruled by Ilyas Shahi, Ganesha, Habshi, and Husain Shahi dynasties until the Mughal conquest at Rajmahal.
Bengal tanka coinage
Bengal tanka coinage (بنگال ٹکہ) is the silver tanka currency struck by the independent Sultans of Bengal, first issued by Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah at Sonargaon in the 1330s.
Bengal tiger
Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris), the Indian-subcontinent tiger subspecies, Endangered, found in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan; India holds about 3,682 of roughly 5,700 wild tigers; threatened by poaching, habitat loss, and human-tiger conflict.
Bengal Tiger (2015 film)
Bengal Tiger (బెంగాల్ టైగర్) is a 2015 Telugu action comedy directed and written by Sampath Nandi, starring Ravi Teja, Tamannaah Bhatia, Raashi Khanna, and Boman Irani; released 10 December 2015, music by Bheems Ceciroleo.
Bengal War
Bengal War, or Anglo-Bengali Wars (1756–1765): East India Company conflict with the Nawabs of Bengal, decided at Plassey (1757) and Buxar (1764), ending with the 1765 Diwani grant over Bengal, Bihar, and Orissa.
Bengali alphabet
Bengali alphabet (বাংলা বর্ণমালা), also called the Bengali script, is the Brahmic abugida used for Bengali and Assamese: 11 vowels and 39 consonants, descended from Brahmi via Kutila, standardized by Vidyasagar and encoded in Unicode.
Bengali autobiography
A Bengali autobiography is a life narrative written in Bengali, as the full autobiography (ātmacarit, আত্মজীবনী) or the memoir (smṛtikathā), emerging as a distinct genre in the late nineteenth century.
Bengali ballads
Bengali ballads are narrative folk songs (gitika) of the Bengal region, telling stories of love, village life, and devotion, transmitted orally before being collected and printed in the early twentieth century.
Bengali Bible translation
The Bengali Bible translation is the rendering of the Christian Bible into Bengali, begun by John Thomas in 1791 and completed by William Carey at Serampore in 1809.
Bengali biography
Bengali biography (jiboni, jibanchorit) is the Bengali-language genre of written accounts of individual lives, from medieval devotional lives of Chaitanya to secular life-writing in colonial Bengal.
Bengali blank verse
Bengali blank verse, known in Bengali as অমিত্রাক্ষর ছন্দ (amitrakshar chhanda), is an unrhymed Bengali meter introduced by Michael Madhusudan Dutt in 1860 and used in his epic Meghnad Badh Kavya.
Bengali book fairs
Bengali book fairs are the annual book fairs of the Bengali-speaking world, chiefly Kolkata's International Kolkata Book Fair, held since 1976, and Dhaka's Amar Ekushey Boi Mela.
Bengali calendar
The Bengali calendar, or Bangabda, is the traditional solar calendar of Bengal, introduced by Mughal emperor Akbar in 1584 to align taxes with the harvest.
Bengali children's literature
Bengali children's literature is writing for children in the Bengali language, begun in colonial Bengal in the early 1800s and continuing in Bangladesh and West Bengal.
Bengali cuisine
Bengali cuisine, also known as Bengali food or the Cuisine of Bengal, is the culinary tradition of the Bengal region, centered on rice, fish, and mustard oil.
Bengali detective fiction
Bengali detective fiction (Bangla goyenda kahini, বাংলা গোয়েন্দা কাহিনি) is the tradition of detective stories in Bengali, begun in colonial Calcutta and known for Byomkesh Bakshi and Feluda.
Bengali drama
Bengali drama, or Bangla natok (বাংলা নাটক), is theater in the Bengali language, blending the folk jatra tradition with a modern stage that arose in colonial Calcutta.
Bengali epic poetry
Bengali epic poetry is the Bengali tradition of long narrative poems, spanning the medieval maṅgal-kāvya genre and the modern epic founded by Michael Madhusudan Dutt's Meghnādbadh kābya of 1861.
Bengali essay
The Bengali essay, known in Bengali as probondho, is a prose form built on argument and analysis, first established by Raja Rammohan Roy in the early 19th century.
Bengali farce
Bengali farce (প্রহসন, prahasana) is a comic dramatic genre of Bengali theater and print literature that flourished in 19th-century Calcutta, taking its name from Sanskrit drama.
Bengali folk drama
Bengali folk drama (Bengali: loko natyo) is traditional rural community theater of Bengal combining song, dance, dialogue, and ritual, with named forms including Gambhira, Alkap, and Chhau.
Bengali folk tales
Bengali folk tales are the orally transmitted stories of the Bengali-speaking people, told for generations by village women and first collected in print in 1883.
Bengali ghost story
A Bengali ghost story, or bhuter golpo (ভূতের গল্প), is Bengali-language fiction about ghosts and the supernatural, a written tradition since the late eighteenth century that includes tales by Rabindranath Tagore.
Bengali Hindus
Bengali Hindus are the Hindu Bengali ethno-linguistic community of West Bengal and Bangladesh, marked by Shakta and Vaishnava traditions, Vedantic and Brahmo reform currents, caste-negotiating folk ritual, and 1947 partition migration.
Bengali historical drama
Bengali historical drama is a tradition of Bengali-language stage plays on historical subjects that became the main vehicle of nationalist sentiment on the Calcutta stage in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Bengali historical novel
The Bengali historical novel (ঐতিহাসিক উপন্যাস, oitihashik uponyash) is a Bengali-language novel set in a past era, whose defining form came from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's Durgeshnandini (1865).
Bengali humour
Bengali humour (রঙ্গ-ব্যঙ্গ, rang-byanga) is the tradition of humor, satire, and wit in the Bengali language, spanning farce, satirical verse, nonsense poetry, and humor periodicals.
Bengali Kayastha
Bengali Kayasthas (বঙ্গীয় কায়স্থ) are a Bengali-speaking Hindu community historically associated with administrative, clerical, and record-keeping occupations. They form a regional Kayastha tradition distinct from the Chitragupta Kayasthas of northern India and.
Bengali language
Bengali (Bangla, বাংলা) is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-European family, descended via Magadhi Prakrit, spoken by roughly 230-265 million people in Bangladesh and eastern India, the 6th or 7th most spoken language worldwide, written in a Brahmi-derived script.