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  2. Mangal-Kāvya - Wikipedia

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    Mangal-Kāvya (Bengali: মঙ্গলকাব্য; lit. "Poems of Benediction") is a group of Bengali religious texts, composed more or less between 13th and 18th centuries, notably consisting of narratives of indigenous deities of rural Bengal in the social scenario of the Middle Ages.

  3. Alkap - Wikipedia

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    Alkap (Bengali: আলকাপ) is a Bengali folk dance popular in the districts of Murshidabad, Malda and Birbhum in West Bengal and Chapai Nawabganj, Rajshahi in Bangladesh. [1] It has also spread to the adjoining areas of Jharkhand and Bihar such as Dumka and Purnia .

  4. Bengalis - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally Bengali men wore the jama, though the costumes such as the panjabi with selwar or pyjama have become more popular within the past three centuries. The popularity of the fotua, a shorter upper garment, is undeniable among Bengalis in casual environments. The lungi and gamcha are a common combination for rural Bengali men.

  5. Operation Barga - Wikipedia

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    Previously operation barga was known as Land Reform and India's first legally and practically successful land reform was also done in West Bengal on year 1967 after United Front came into power and that movement was led by two CPI(M) leader Hare Krishna Konar and Benoy Choudhury but soon United Front loss its power on year 1970, then for 7 years Land Reform was abolished and after the Left ...

  6. Katha (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Katha or Biswa (also spelled kattha or cottah; Hindi: कट्ठा, Assamese: কঠা, Bengali: কাঠা) is a unit of area mostly used for land measurement in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh. After metrication in the mid-20th century by these countries, the unit became officially obsolete. But this unit is still in use in much of ...

  7. Jasimuddin - Wikipedia

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    Jasimuddin (Bengali: জসীম উদ্‌দীন; 1 January 1903 – 14 March 1976), popularly called Palli Kabi (lit. ' Pastoral Poet '), was a Bangladeshi poet, lyricist, composer and writer widely celebrated for his modern ballad sagas in the pastoral mode. [1] Although his full name is Jasim Uddin Mollah, he is known as Jasim Uddin. [2]

  8. Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Co ...

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    Minister for Rural Development and Co-operatives Division 7B Swapan Bhattacharjee (born 1952) MP for Jessore-5 (State Minister) Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives (7) Md Tazul Islam (born 1955) MP for Comilla-9: 11 January 2024 9 August 2024 211 days: Awami League: Hasina V: Sheikh Hasina: C5 A. F. Hassan Ariff ...

  9. Bengali dialects - Wikipedia

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    Some variants of Bengali, particularly Chittagonian and Chakma Bengali, have contrastive tone; differences in the pitch of the speaker's voice can distinguish words. In dialects such as Hajong of northern Bangladesh, there is a distinction between উ and ঊ , the first corresponding exactly to its standard counterpart but the latter ...