Bengal Essays

  • The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier

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    The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, Eaton’s examination of the proliferation of Islam in Bengali from the thirteenth through the eighteenth century, presents compelling arguments in support of a model striking in contrast to those endorsed by Eaton’s predecessors. This paper will present a juxtaposition of the theories including a comprehensive examination of vital historical processes in cultural change. Eaton’s argument maintains the agrarian frontier was the foundation of economic growth

  • The Real Bengal: A Historical Discussion of Identity

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    have easily been taken in by its Hindu counterpart in West Bengal. Bangladesh, however, cannot fit into either side. Bangladesh is unique in that its identity is specific; neither common religion or general pan-Indian identity sufficed as a claim to a national identity. The people themselves display strong nationalism and fervor for their homeland, which, to this magnitude, is unprecedented of South Asian countries. The first imaginary of Bengal produced in this journal begins with the Bengali Renaissance

  • Bengal Tiger Adaptations

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    FEATURES: Nowadays a lot of animals are being hunted. The organism that I have chosen is the national animal of India - The Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris). It has a lot of physical adaptations like striped fur to camouflage, soft pads which allows them to walk silently to their prey, this allows them to survive in its habitat. They are nocturnal animals. WHY ARE THEY ENDANGERED? Bengal tigers are beautiful animals and it's really disheartening to watch them die! Hunters are hunting them for their skin

  • Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo

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    successful show is the performances of the actors. To assess the performance of an actor there are many aspects that one must consider, I believe the most important to be vocalisation, physicalisation and characterisation. I will be critiquing The Bengal Tiger at the Bagdad Zoo, the story of the lives and afterlives of the people and animals caught in the middle of a war torn country, as performed by Persona Collective at the Annexe Theatre on the 10th-12th of April, on the performances of John Swindle

  • Rabindranath Tagore Essay Writing

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    Rabindranath Tagore was born into a wealthy Brahmin family in Calcutta. He returned to India after a short stay in England studying law.He pursued a career as a writer,poet,educator,playwright,philosopher and a songwriter instead. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore. Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, artist, novelist. composer, playwright and a philosopher. He is India’s first Nobel laureate. Tagore modernised Bengali art by rejecting rigid classical

  • Who Is The Woul Interpreter Of Maladies

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    Mr. and Mrs. Das enjoy all things Indian. The couple is as if drinking its fill of Indian experience. Just as the Suntemple at Konarak becomes a must see, they also enjoy jhalmuri that is typical of Bengal and its adjacent states. Mrs. Das is quite a foreigner in her dress and taste, the lady does not forget to carry her water bottle lest she catches infection due to consumption of contaminated water. But she cannot resist enjoying the jhalmuri: 'She

  • Bengal Tiger

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    The Bengal Tiger The Bengal tiger is a carnivorous, mammal primarily from India. It lives in habitats such as the coniferous Himalayan Forest, the mangroves of the Sunderbans, the hills of the Indian Peninsula, or the forests of Rajasthan and Northern India. At one time Bengal tigers were scattered throughout Asia. Now they are generally found in India and some regions of Bangledesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Myanmar. There is approximately 4,000 alive in the wild now, and about 300 are in captivity

  • Extinction of Bengal Tigers

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    Bengal tigers are very beautiful majestic animals. So, could you imagine life without them? They are native to most of Asia deep in the rainforests. They are being hunted to be made into rugs, and are losing their habitat due to deforestation. Can anything be done about this? ”The Bengal tiger (also known as the Royal Bengal tiger) or (Pentera tigris tigris), is the national animal of Bangladesh, and is considered to be the second largest tigers in the world.” [Bengal] Tigers give birth to litters

  • Foucault's Power and Language: Bengali

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    similarly many about working class but few about the middle classes.” Now, we should examine the role of language in the process of knowledge formation. For illustration purpose we would refer to examples from the status of the Bangla language in East Bengal (now Bangladesh) during the pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial era. The ‘knowledge’, most of us will agree, in Foucaultian sense is a tool for creating a discourse in terms of power and hegemony. This knowledge is created in order to influence

  • Bengal Tigers

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    Bengal tigers, also known as the Panthera tigris tigris has been classified by the (IUCN)- The International Union for Conservation of Nature, as one of the many subspecies that are vulnerable for extinction & is listed as endangered . These tigers are teetering on a tightrope of their existence. It has been stated that an approximation of 2000 still remains lingering in the wild. Fewer than 4,000 are left the in world either in the wild or held captive. About 7% of the tiger’s habitats

  • Essay On The History Of Bangladesh

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    originally known as Bengal. It is unclear where the name Bengal came from but it is believed that it was derived from Vanga, the Dravidian tribe that settled in the area around 1000 BC. By the 16th century, the Mughal Empire came to power. The Mughal Empire was a Persian speaking empire rooted in Islam that extended over large parts of the Indian subcontinent. During the Mughal administration, Portuguese traders from Goa began traveling the sea route through the Ganges to Bengal. In 1537, twenty years

  • The History and Culture of Bangladesh

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    Bangladesh Bangladesh came to existence in 1971 when Bengali East Pakistan seceded from its union with West Pakistan. It is located in southern Asia bordering the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and India. Bangladesh and West Bengal form a region which is called Bengal; and Bangladesh is sometimes referred to as East Bengal. It has a population of around 138,448,210 people. (CIA World fact book)The nation’s rapid growth has led to serious overcrowding. About one third of this extremely poor country

  • Causes Of The American Revolution

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    When the topic of revolution comes up the first thing many individuals first think about the American revolution, but to Bengali people their greatest victory came from their own revolution against Pakistan. The downfalls and the hardships the Bengali people had to face along with the bloodshed caused by Pakistan when Bangladesh was simply a territory referred to as East Pakistan after the Partition of India will always remain the heart of this great nation. When the Bengali people were endowed

  • The Nightmare

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    The Nightmare Dreams are often visions of the conscience that hold the most truth. In the novel, Cracking India, by Bapsi Sidhwa, the narrator Lenny, has a reoccurring nightmare that contains much truth about the state of India. In Lenny’s nightmare, Children lie in a warehouse. Mother and Ayah move about solicitously. The atmosphere is businesslike and relaxed. Godmother sits by my bed smiling indulgently as men in uniforms quietly slice off a child’s arm here, a leg there. She strokes

  • The American Revolution and India's Independence Movement

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    Systems of governance and authority can have a profound influence on the development of human societies. For example, the major influence of the British Empire in the development of Indian and American human societies. All types of governments – from local politics to federal bureaucracies to huge empires – maintain their authority through specific techniques, including fostering a shared identity (nationalism), developing economic interdependence, and sometimes using overt force. Challenges to

  • Khushwant Singh's Train to Pakistan

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    Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) is a renowned postcolonial thinker known for his two seminal works Black Skin and White Masks (1986) and The Wretched of the Earth (1991). The latter is a paean on the cult of vociferous revolution and it unravels how anticolonial sentiments may address the venture of decolonization. Fanon delves at length how ill equipped are the former colonies to function as independent nations and proffers an excoriating criticism on present day bourgeois nationalism in third world nations

  • Gandhi as an Outlaw Leader and his non-violent Movements

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    Outlaws! The word often haunts us, as we sit and ponder over it. Usually it brings with it, a sense of insecurity and fear. Sometimes after watching a movie or after reading a crime story, we are scared about going out alone, or sometimes, even in the house we have a feeling, as if someone is watching us. Why is all this? Why are we scared in our own house? Why are we scared to go out? It is because after watching so many movies, reading the papers and being aware about the crimes happening all

  • Genocide Of Bangladesh Essay

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    Bangladesh became independent after fighting a bloody war of nine months where a massive amount of people were killed, tortured by the Pakistani Army. They killed and tortured the civilians including women, minors, intellectuals, and children. There is an academic consensus that the events took place during the Bangladesh Liberation war constituted genocide by West Pakistan against the people of Eastern Pakistan. The genocide of Bangladesh began on 26 March 1971 with the launch of Operation Searchlight

  • A Golden Age : Book Review

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    Synopsis As Rehana Haque awakes one March morning, she may be forgiven for feeling happy. Today she will throw a party for her son and daughter. In the garden of the house she has built, her roses are blooming; her children are almost grown up; and beyond their doorstep, the city is buzzing with excitement after recent elections. Change is in the air. But none of the guests at Rehana's party can foresee what will happen in the days and months that follow. For this is East Pakistan in 1971, a country

  • The Politics of Gas: An Inventory of Resource Conflict in the Context of Chittagong Hill Tracts

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    The conflict dynamic in post accord Chittagong Hill Tracts is at cross-road. The intensity of violent ethnic conflict has likely to be reduced since the signing of peace accord in 1997. However, the people in CHT are dealing with new dynamics of conflict which has caused less violent but protracted social tensions and conflicts. Natural resource conflict is becoming paramount dynamic of social conflict in CHT region. The CHT region is the only extensive hill area in Bangladesh. The region consists