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East Bengal

noun

  1. formerly a part of the Indian province of Bengal; now coextensive with Bangladesh. Compare Bengal ( def 1 ).


East Bengal

noun

  1. the part of the former Indian province of Bengal assigned to Pakistan in 1947 (now Bangladesh)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Born to a Muslim family in East Bengal in 1947, Ms Hasina had politics in her blood.

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Fowler, 46, is manager of East Bengal in the Indian Super League, where he was appointed last year.

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The 45 year-old Fowler, who scored over 180 goals for Liverpool, took over East Bengal in October and has taken fans of one of India’s biggest and oldest clubs for a roller-coaster ride so far.

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In Jagu’s and Rajesh’s case, my grandmother believed, the upheaval and uprooting from East Bengal to Calcutta had unmoored their minds, although in spectacularly opposite ways.

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A steady flow of men and women from East Bengal—those who had sensed the early political convulsions before their neighbors—had already started to fill the low-rises and tenements near Sealdah station.

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