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The Bengali Calendar or Bangla Calendar ( Bengali: বঙ্গাব্দ, lit. 'Baṅgābda'), colloquially ( Bengali: বাংলা সন, romanized : Baṅgla Śon ), is a solar calendar [ 1] used in the Bengal region of the South Asia. A revised version of the calendar is the national and official calendar in Bangladesh and an earlier ...
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 of ...
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 ...
v. t. e. The history of Bangladesh as a civilized nation goes back for more than four millennia to the Chalcolithic. The country's early recorded history is characterized by a succession of Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms and empires that fought for control of the Bengal region .
Muslin production in Bengal dates back to the 4th century BCE. The region exported the fabric to Ancient Greece and Rome. [6] Bengali silk was known as Ganges Silk in the 13th century Republic of Venice. [7] Mughal Bengal was a major silk exporter. The Bengali silk industry declined after the growth of Japanese silk production.
Pohela Boishakh ( Bengali: পহেলা বৈশাখ) [ n 1] is the Bengali New Year celebrated on 14 April in Bangladesh and 15 April in the Indian [ 2] states of West Bengal, Tripura, Jharkhand and Assam ( Goalpara and Barak Valley ).
The Bengali calendar dates back to the reign of Shashanka in the 7th century CE. The Pala Empire was founded in Bengal during the 8th century. The Sena dynasty and Deva dynasty ruled between the 11th and 13th centuries. By the 14th century, Bengal was absorbed by Muslim conquests in the Indian subcontinent.
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 ...