Bengal-Westerner

The Bengal-Westerner is a State of the India of the North-East. Its capital is Calcutta ( Kolkota in Bengali). The official language of the State of the Bengal-Westerner is the Bengali .

Subdivisions

The Bengal-Westerner is composed of 19 districts :

Often the districts Cooch Behar, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, North Dinajpur and South Dinajpur are commonly called Northern Bengal.

History

Bengal passes under control Musulman during the 13th century and becomes an area of industry and flourishing trade at the time of the Empire moghol at the 16th century. The European merchants settle starting from the end of the 15th century then the British will dominate the area starting from the end of the 18th century. It is from Bengal that they will end up extending to them to be able on whole India.

When India reaches independence in 1947, Bengal is divided into two, the part is mainly Moslem becoming the Eastern Pakistan - today the Bangladesh - and the part western mainly Hindou the Indian Bengal-Westerner.

For the history of the area before 1947, to see: Bengal

  • Bankura
  • Bardhaman
  • Birbhum
  • Cooch Behar
  • Darjeeling
  • Hooghly
  • Howrah
  • Jalpaiguri
  • Kolkata
  • Malda
  • Midnapore East
  • Midnapore West
  • Murshidabad
  • Nadia
  • Purulia
  • North 24 Parganas
  • South 24 Parganas
  • North Dinajpur
  • South Dinajpur

A chart of the districts is visible on the official Web site of the State of Bengal.

Policy

Since 1977, the State is directed by the Left Face, which gained on several occasions and democratically all the elections. The chief of the executive (Chief Minister) is Buddhadev Bhattacharya, and the governor is Viren J. Shah.

The legislative Parliament includes/understands… parliamentary.

Geography

The Bengal-Westerner is bordered by the Nepal and the Sikkim in the North-West, by the Bhutan with north, the Assam in the North-East, the Bangladesh in the east, the Bay of Bengal in the south, the Orissa in south-west and the Jharkhand and the Bihar in the west. At the border of Sikkim and the Bengal-Westerner the edge extends from Singalila, whose more high summits are the Sandakfu mount, higher point from the State from the Bengal-Westerner to 3.636 m, follow-up of the peak Falut, which culminates to 3.595 Mr.

Climate

The Bengal-Westerner is located in tropical Climat. The area is made up mainly of plains, except the north which belongs to the the Himalayas. Darjeeling, in north is famous for its The. In the south, the delta Sundarbans on the Gange is one of the components of the largest delta of river of the world (the other part is with the Bengladesh). This area is famous for the Bengal tiger.

Economy

The Bengal-Westerner is the third economic power (2003-2004) in India after the Maharashtra and the Uttar Pradesh. In term of income per capita, it is placed at the twelfth places (2003-2004).

Demography

The vast majority of the inhabitants of the Bengal-Westerner are Bengali. There exists a minority of Bihari S dispersed through the State, and the Sherpa S are gathered around the Sikkim. The Gorkha S of Darjeeling speaking népali militate for a separated State, and obtained autonomy within Bengal in the Darjeeling Gorkha Hill Council.

There are finally qualified groups of " tribal " , like the Garo, the Marma and the Mru, which speak about the Langues sino-Tibetans, and the Chakma, which speak a language about the same sub-group known as " Bengali-assamais" Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European Langues that the Bengali .

Culture



contemporary Bengali poetry : Poets of Bengal, they are of this country of the North-East of India, traversed by the innumerable arms of Gange and Bramhapoutre, country of the vastest delta of the world where one of strongest human concentrations of the sphere saw the. Turbulent area that the English did not succeed in dividing but the convulsions which accompanied independence detached Western Bengal of Eastern Pakistan become in 1971 the state independent of Bengladesh. It is poetry of Western Bengal which it acts here, during its recent time, i.e. that of the poets of the 20th century, born between the beginning of the year 30 and beginning of the year 70, period when the independence of India continues and which will see the tear of the Bengali fatherland in two distinct states. Their language is heiress of a tradition come from the sumptuous Sanskrit, it does not have the complexity of old grammar and it received throughout its history the contributions of other languages like Persian, the Urdu one, Arabic, also the dialects of the various tribes, later English, Portuguese, French. It conceals as many richnesses as the Sanskrit with the fluidity of a modern and open language. If the oldest texts in Bengali go back to before the 10th century, on the other hand it is with truly a popular literature in the shape of thousands of poems to the glory of Krishna appeared. Thanks to intellectual scholars and militants who fought for new Bengal at the time of colonialism and also thanks to certain European missionaries, Bengali grammar was made up. The cultivated and modernistic mediums of Bengal seized some and, taking as a starting point the Western literary forms contributed to the Bengali rebirth whose Rabindranath Tagore, Nobel Prize in 1913, were the most eminent representative. After Tagore appeared important poets and who sometimes move away from the supervision of the prestigious Master like Jivanananda Das, Buddhadev Basu, Premendra Mitra, Vishnu Dey, Suhindranath Datta, Samar SEN, Subhas Mukhopadhyay, etc the generation which is present here is that of the poets who affirm themselves in the Sixties, seventy and beyond. Like their readers, they are concerned with Mao, Che Guevarra, Biafra, Bangladesh, etc….they read Maïakowski, Neruda, Lorca, Aragon, so much of others: Proust, Kafka, Joyce, Valéry, Steinbeck, Camus, Pasternak, Michaux… Their poetry with the color of work and the days, it blows there a major wind which pokes embers and the values of the life. Also they often write what others do not dare, with the risk sometimes of flatness, with the short-nap cloth of proses, according to the common articulations of the daily newspaper. Here the beauty is not mutilated marble, it is that of the combat of all to better live. The policy is not for them an impure, foreign element with a poetry which draws a share of its force in the history which is done. Sometimes, often even, there is in their poems something of foolish, primesautier, not so much in the swinging of the words (if as well is as one can perceive it from one language to another whereas the linguistic systems are radically different) that in the face-to-face discussion of the aspirations to the ideal and wounding reality: the worms come from the distances of an ancestral history, “for a long time dreamed” as Baudelaire said, are very mixed with the relentless presence with reality. But one can there just as easily read confidences, escaped consents. One intends there to beat the deep heart of time. Some important names, impossible to circumvent, of this field: Lokenath Bhattacharya, Kabita Singha, Shankhya Ghosh, Shakti Chattopadhyay, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Samarendra Sengupta, Purnendu Potri, Nabanita Debsen, Amitabha Dasgupta, Alokranjan Dasgupta, Tushar Chowdhury, Joy Goswami, Subodh Sarkar, Mallika Sengupta, Taslima Nasreen, Bhaskar Chakraborty, Subroto Sarkar, Yashadhara Roychoudhury, Mandakranta SEN…

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Others

Enclaves of India and Bangladesh

External bonds

  1. Site of the government of the State
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Simple: West Bengal

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