East Bengal (Bengali: পূর্ববঙ্গ Purbo-bongo) was the name used during two periods in the 20th century for a territory that roughly corresponded to the modern state of Bangladesh. Both instances involved a violent partition of Bengal.
Read more about East Bengal: First Partition, 1905–1912 (British Period), Second Partition, 1947– (Pakistani Period), Provincial Government
Famous quotes containing the words east and/or bengal:
“Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.”
—Philip Guedalla (1889–1944)
“In Bengal to move at all
Is seldom, if ever, done,
But mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.”
—Noël Coward (1899–1973)
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