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  2. Women in Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    Women, in custom and practice, remained subordinate to men in almost all aspects of their lives; greater autonomy was the privilege of the rich or the necessity of the very poor. Most women's lives remained centred on their traditional roles, and they had limited access to markets, productive services, education, health care, and local government.

  3. List of Bengalis - Wikipedia

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    Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay, first women Director of Indian Statistical Institute, India; Chandramukhi Basu, computer scientist and first female graduate in India, and the British Empire; Sekhar Basu was an Indian nuclear scientist who served as the chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and Secretary to the Government of India

  4. Bengalis - Wikipedia

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    A Bengali woman in Dhaka clad in fine Bengali muslin, 18th century. Bengal became the basis of the Anglo-Mughal War . [ 117 ] [ 118 ] After the weakening of the Mughal Empire with the death of Emperor Aurangzeb in 1707, Bengal was ruled independently by three dynasties of Nawabs until 1757, when the region was annexed by the East India Company ...

  5. Category:Bengali women by occupation - Wikipedia

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    Bengali women artists (19 P) M. Bengali female models (10 P) P. Bengali female poets (24 P) This page was last edited on 20 March 2020, at 19:22 (UTC). Text is ...

  6. Feminism in Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    Article 28 of Bangladesh constitution states that "Women shall have equal rights with men in all spheres of the State and of public life". [1] Sculpture of Begum Rokeya at Burdhwan House, Bangla Academy. She was a pioneer of women's liberation in Bangladesh.

  7. Jasodhara Bagchi - Wikipedia

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    She began the Bengali Women Writers Reprint Series, which is edited by the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University. [ 2 ] Professors Sajni Mukherji and Supriya Chaudhuri, her friends and colleagues at this department, edited for her a distinguished Festschrift in 2002: Literature and Gender: Essays for Jasodhara Bagchi .

  8. Culture of Bengal - Wikipedia

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    Biggest festival of Bengalis, Pohela Boishakh. 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.

  9. List of Bengali actresses - Wikipedia

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    Madhabi Mukherjee is considered to be one of the greatest actresses of Bengali cinema; best remembered for her titular role in Charulata (1964), she was a reigning actress in 1960s Year of debut Name