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  2. Bengali calendars - Wikipedia

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    The Bengali Calendar incorporates the seven-day week as used by many other calendars. The names of the days of the week in the Bengali Calendar are based on the Navagraha (Bengali: নবগ্রহ nôbôgrôhô). The day begins and ends at sunrise in the Bengali calendar, unlike in the Gregorian calendar, where the day starts at midnight.

  3. Bangladeshi national calendar - Wikipedia

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    20 October. 2024 AD. The Bangladeshi national calendar, known as Bengali calender (Bengali: বঙ্গাব্দ, romanized: Bôṅgābdô) officially and commonly, is a civil calendar used in Bangladesh, alongside the Gregorian calendar. With roots in the ancient calendars of the region, [1][2][3] it is based on Tarikh-e-Elahi (Divine Era ...

  4. Culture of Bengal - Wikipedia

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    Culture of Bengal. 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.

  5. History of Bengal - Wikipedia

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    e. The history of Bengal is intertwined with the history of the broader Indian subcontinent and the surrounding regions of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It includes modern-day Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam 's Karimganj district, located in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent, at the apex of the Bay ...

  6. Bengali Wikipedia - Wikipedia

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    Along with other Wikipedia sub-domains, the Bengali language sub-domain was created at that time. [10] A placeholder page was created automatically in that sub-domain on 1 June 2002. [ 11 ] On 9 December 2003, a Bangladeshi Ph.D. student of Canada's McGill University named Shah Asaduzzaman emailed Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales with a request to ...

  7. Ghosts in Bengali culture - Wikipedia

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    Bengali folktales and Bengali cultural identity are intertwined in such a way that ghosts depicted reflect the culture it sets in. [1] Fairy tales, both old and new, often use the concept of ghosts. References to ghosts are often found in modern-day Bengali literature, cinema, radio and television media. There are also alleged haunted sites in ...

  8. Bengali language - Wikipedia

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    The Bengali language is native to the region of Bengal, which comprises the present-day nation of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. Geographical distribution of the Bengali language in the world. Main language. Regional language. Overseas population of more than a million.

  9. Bengali language movement - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Bengali language movement[a] was a political movement in former East Bengal [b] 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 use as a medium of education, its use in media, currency and stamps, and to ...