Secondly on the issue of the administration and allocation of certain taxes to East Pakistan, the Bengalis grieved due to the decision of the Central Government, in 1948, to take over for two years: (i) the provinces' share of income tax; and (ii) the administration of the sales tax, with 50 per cent revenue under this head going to the provinces.(CAPD, no.

Bengali Market owes its name to its founder, an Old Delhi businessman named Lala Bengali Mal Lohia, who bought the land at a public auction in 1930, built the quaint marketplace and leased it out to local businessmen by 1934.

Myth: There were over 3 million killings of Bengalis during the military operations.

Even though summers are dry, the Bengalis still experience a cool breeze most of the time, because of the Bay of Bengal.

The language issue was the most original and basic issue that proved to be a challenge for Pakistan's leaders as a test of their capacities for appeasing Bengali nationalist movement in East Bengal.

During the interwar years, Bengalis played a major role in the Indian independence movement.

The trouble arises because there is a clear model pattern in settling the Bodos and Bengalis. It was urged that all those areas that lay in the heart of the Bodo land and had a clear majority of the Bodos should not be included and all fringe areas with non-Bodo holding should be kept outside.

In this descriptive and analytical, more than theoretically inflected, volume, France Bhattacharya retraces the lives and works of three Bengali intellectuals who wrestled in distinct ways, not only with the political and economic, but also and preeminently, the cultural weight of the colonial regime from the late eighteenth century to the end of the nineteenth.

Bengali written in a variant of the Devnagri was not looked upon with approval by the central leadership and this attitude was resented by the Bengalis who asserted that Bengali was as much a language of the Muslims as Urdu.

This has led to a strengthening of ant immigrant feelings especially against Bengalis who after partition relocated from East Pakistan and later from Bangladesh to India, mainly to West Bengal and Assam.

'We [the Bengalis] had never been independent ...ultimately the Bengalis achieved the right of self-rule through establishing a Bengali-majority sovereign state led by Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, "said the minister while inaugurating the birth centenary of Bangabandhu at Bangabandhu Research Center at Northern University at Banani in the city.

Summary: Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 6 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday condemned Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy who in a series of controversial tweets said Bengalis were "sweeping the floors" or "are bar dancers in Mumbai".

The feeling of deprivation was so severe that when the principle of parity was adopted in 1956 constitution, Bengalis were overjoyed that they were recognised equal to people of the West Pakistan.