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  2. Women in Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    The status of women in Bangladesh has been subject to many important changes over the past few centuries. Bangladeshi women have made significant progress since the country's independence in 1971, where women in the region experienced increased political empowerment for women, better job prospects, increased opportunities of education and the ...

  3. Indigenous peoples in Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    The indigenous people of Bangladesh are ethnic minorities in Chittagong Hill Tracts (southeastern), Sylhet Division (northeastern), Rajshahi Division (west), and Mymensingh Division (north-central) areas of the country. They are indigenous and the tribal races, total population of ethnic minorities in Bangladesh was estimated to be over 2 ...

  4. Wasfia Nazreen - Wikipedia

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    Wasfia Nazreen (Bengali: ওয়াসফিয়া নাজরীন) is a Bangladeshi mountaineer, activist, environmentalist, social worker and writer.. Nazreen is the first Bengali and Bangladeshi to scale K2, the world's second highest and most dangerous peak becoming one of the 40 women in history since 1954 to have successfully scaled K2.

  5. Culture of Bengal - Wikipedia

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    Biggest festival of Bengalis, Pohela Boishakh. The culture of Bengal defines the cultural heritage of the Bengali people native to eastern regions of the Indian subcontinent, mainly what is today Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, where they form the dominant ethnolinguistic group and the Bengali language is the official and primary language.

  6. Culture of Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    Culture of Bangladesh. The culture of Bangladesh is intertwined with the culture of the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent. It has evolved over the centuries and encompasses the cultural diversity of several social groups of Bangladesh. The Bengal Renaissance of the 18th early 19th centuries, noted Bengali writers, saints, authors ...

  7. Mahmuda Khatun Siddiqua - Wikipedia

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    She would bring along women writers, whenever she found one. She went knocking at different publishers doors, urging them to publish books by a lot of women writers. Most of them still remember her. Literary work. Mahmuda's first poem was published in a magazine from Calcutta called Al-Islam when she was twelve. She also attended literary ...

  8. Rounaq Jahan - Wikipedia

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    Rounaq Jahan ( Bengali: রওনক জাহান; born 2 March 1944) is a Bangladeshi political scientist, feminist leader and author. [3] A former faculty of the University of Dhaka, Jahan teaches and researches at the Columbia University since 1990. [4] She was a representative of Bangladesh to the 32nd Session of the United Nations ...

  9. Garo people - Wikipedia

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    It is estimated that the total Garo population in Meghalaya, Assam, Nagaland, Tripura, West Bengal, Canada, the US, Europe, Australia, and Bangladesh combined is more than 1 million. [11] Garo is also found scattered in the Indian state of Tripura. The recorded Garo population was around 6,000 in 1971.