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Bengal Haora bridge Ramakrishna Math at Belur, Howrah district, West Bengal, India
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Thunderstorms to lash Bengal from May 19 to May 22: IMD • May 19, 2025, 3:31 AM ET (The Indian Express)
Alleged JMB members arrested in Bengal: ‘Were plotting attacks, recruitment drives,’ say police • May 9, 2025, 9:12 AM ET (The Indian Express)
Row over idols at Digha Jagannath Dham: After Mamata says no wood stolen from Puri, Odisha minister concurs • May 6, 2025, 3:24 AM ET (The Indian Express)
Another Trinamool MP writes to Amit Shah on attacks on migrant workers from Bengal • May 4, 2025, 6:47 AM ET (The Hindu)
Trinamool MP Yusuf Pathan seeks Home Minister’s intervention over alleged assault on migrant workers from Bengal in Odisha • May 3, 2025, 3:38 AM ET (The Hindu)

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Also Known As Bangla

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Bengal
Haora bridge
Ramakrishna Math at Belur, Howrah district, West Bengal, India
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Major Events

Indigo Revolt
Lord Curzon
partition of Bengal
Regulating Act
Treaties of Banaras
Battle of Tukaroi

Related Places

Flag of India
India
Bangladesh
Bangladesh
A map of the continent of Asia, including its countries, boundaries, and capital cities, as well as parts of Europe, Africa, and surrounding oceans.
Asia
continent
Western Duars
West Bengal
state, India

Key People

Mughal emperors: Jahāngīr, Akbar, and Shah Jahān
Mughal dynasty
India [1526-1857]
Robert Clive
Robert Clive
British colonial administrator
Warren Hastings, oil painting by Tilly Kettle; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Warren Hastings
British colonial administrator
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy
Indian author and activist
Bentinck, Lord William
Lord William Bentinck
British government official
Mīr Jaʿfar
Bengali ruler
Nand Kumar
Bengali official
Pala dynasty
Indian dynasty
Ḥusayn Shah ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn
Bengali sultan
Sena dynasty
Indian dynasty