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Bengali traditional dress encompasses the clothing traditions of the Indian state of West Bengal and the country of Bangladesh. The attire has been influenced by centuries of cultural evolution, religious practices, and geographical conditions.
Bengali Americans are predominantly Bangladeshi Americans and are usually Bengali speaking Muslims. Since the early 1970s, Bangladeshi immigrants have arrived in significant numbers to become one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the U.S. New York City is home to two-thirds of the Bangladeshi American population.
The lungi and gamcha are a common combination for rural Bengali men. Islamic clothing is also very common in the region. During special occasions, Bengali women commonly wear either sharis, selwar kamizes or abayas, covering their hair with hijab or orna; and men wear a panjabi, also covering their hair with a tupi, toqi, pagri or rumal.
Under the royal guidance the tant (specially jamdani) and muslin became famous in and around Dacca (now Dhaka, Bangladesh) and Murshidabad (now West Bengal, India) in the Mughal era. [2] British government tried to destroy this art to protect the textile industry of Manchester , but the tant culture managed to survive.
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Pohela Baishakh celebration in Dhaka, Bangladesh. 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.
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 .
Fazle Hussain, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas Tech University; M. Zahid Hasan, scientist and Eugene Higgins endowed chair professor of quantum physics, at Princeton University Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [2]