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The Bangladesh genocide ( Bengali: একাত্তরের গণহত্যা, romanized:Ekāttorer Gôṇôhôtyā, lit. '71's genocide', Bengali: বাঙালি গণহত্যা, romanized:Bāṅāli Gôṇôhôtyā, lit. 'Bengali genocide') was the ethnic cleansing of Bengalis, especially Bengali Hindus, residing in East ...
The Bengali language movement ( Bengali: বাংলা ভাষা আন্দোলন, romanized : Bangla Bhasha Andolôn) was a political movement in former East Bengal (renamed East Pakistan, now Bangladesh) in 1952 advocating the recognition of the Bengali language as a co- lingua franca of the then- Dominion of Pakistan to allow its use in government affairs, the continuation of its ...
Language Movement Day ( Bengali: ভাষা আন্দোলন দিবস Bhasha Andolôn Dibôs ), also called State Language Day or Language Martyrs' Day ( Bengali: শহীদ দিবস Shôhid Dibôs ), is a national holiday of Bangladesh taking place on 21 February each year and commemorating the Bengali language movement and its martyrs. On this day, people visit Shaheed Minar ...
The Bengal famine of 1943 was an anthropogenic famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II. An estimated 0.8–3.8 million people died, [A] in the Bengal region (present-day Bangladesh and West Bengal), from starvation, malaria and other diseases aggravated by malnutrition, population displacement, unsanitary ...
Bengali is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh, [11] [12] [13] with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. [14] [15] It is the second-most widely spoken language in India. It is the official language of the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura and the Barak Valley region of the state of ...
Rabindranath Tagore FRAS ( / rəˈbɪndrənɑːt tæˈɡɔːr / ⓘ; pronounced [roˈbindɾonatʰ ˈʈʰakuɾ]; [1] 7 May 1861 [2] – 7 August 1941 [3]) was a Bengali poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter during the age of Bengal Renaissance. [4] [5] [6] He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well ...
The Bangladesh Liberation War [note 2] ( Bengali: মুক্তিযুদ্ধ, pronounced [mukt̪iɟud̪d̪ʱo] ), also known as the Bangladesh War of Independence, or simply the Liberation War in Bangladesh, was a revolution and armed conflict sparked by the rise of the Bengali nationalist and self-determination movement in East Pakistan ...
Bengalis are the third-largest ethnic group in the world, after the Han Chinese and Arabs. [20] Thus, they are the largest ethnic group within the Indo-Europeans and the largest ethnic group in South Asia. Apart from Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Manipur, and Assam's Barak Valley, Bengali-majority populations also reside in India's union territory of Andaman and ...