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  2. Siraj-ud-Daulah - Wikipedia

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    In the Bengali version of the end of his rule, Mir Jafar and Robert Clive are the villains and Siraj is the victim. Even though he is rarely if ever depicted as an attractive person, he is regarded as having been sinned against, rather than as a sinner.

  3. Black Hole of Calcutta - Wikipedia

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    The desertions of Indian sepoys made the British defence of Fort William ineffective and it fell to the siege of Bengali forces on 20 June 1756. The surviving defenders who were captured and made prisoners of war numbered between 64 and 69, along with an unknown number of Anglo-Indian soldiers and civilians who earlier had been sheltered in ...

  4. Bengali vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Bengali is typically thought to have around 100,000 separate words, of which 16,000 (16%) are considered to be তদ্ভব tôdbhôbô, or Tadbhava (inherited Indo-Aryan vocabulary), 40,000 (40%) are তৎসম tôtśômô or Tatsama (words directly borrowed from Sanskrit), and borrowings from দেশী deśi, or "indigenous" words, which are at around 16,000 (16%) of the Bengali ...

  5. History of Bengal - Wikipedia

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    Led by Bakhtiar Khilji, an army of several thousand horsemen from the Ghurids overwhelmed Bengali Hindu forces during a blitzkrieg campaign. After victory, the Delhi Sultanate maintained a strong vigil on Bengal. Coins were inscribed in gold with the Sanskrit inscription Gaudiya Vijaye, meaning "On the conquest of Gauda (Bengal)". Several ...

  6. Tishyaraksha - Wikipedia

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    The story of Tishyaraksha has also been captured by the Bengali writer Samaresh Majumdar in his novel "Saranagata", however, with very different strokes and shades that are attributed to the life of Ashoka. The same line of story was developed by a prominent Bengali dramatist Amit Maitra into a drama titled 'Dharmashok'. [citation needed]

  7. Bengal War - Wikipedia

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    EIC agent William Ellis with a small detachment captured Patna by surprise. In the 1st battle of Patna on 25 June 1763, Bengali troops led by Armenian mercenary Maskarian drove the British out of Patna, captured and held in captivity most of them.

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  9. Mrinalini (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Mrinalini is a Bengali novel written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee. The novel was first published in 1869. [ 1 ] This was Chatterjee's third novel, and he was 30 years old when the novel was first published.