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A brief history
East India · Formed 1947 · Capital Kolkata
Cradle of the Bengal Renaissance and India's freedom movement. Partitioned in 1947 — East Bengal became East Pakistan, then Bangladesh in 1971.
LanguagesBengali
Famous families & dynasties
- Tagore family of JorasankoRabindranath, Abanindranath — Bengal Renaissance.
- Roy ChoudhurysZamindar houses across Bengal — Rathindra, Prafulla.
- Bhattacharya, Chatterjee, Banerjee, MukherjeeKulin Brahmin lineages of Bengal.
- Marwari houses of KolkataBirla and Poddar — arrived in the late 1800s.
Communities & clans
Brahmin (Kulin)KayasthaBaidyaNamasudraMarwariBengali MuslimAnglo-Indian
Common gotras / clan names
BharadwajaKashyapaSandilyaVatsaGautama
Migration corridors from West Bengal
- →London / OxfordFirst-wave scholars and ICS officers from Presidency College.
- →USA (New Jersey, California)Bengali academic and medical diaspora since the 1960s.
- →Dubai / Middle EastRecent professional migration.
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