Then, men such as Liang, or Rabindranath Tagore (pictured) from Bengal, would travel to Tokyo.
The Rohingyas originally came from Bengal to what was then Burma when both were parts of Britain's vast Indian empire.
They have come from Bengal, Bihar, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and elsewhere.
It is a freezing cold Sunday morning but that has not deterred the boys from Red Star Bengal from attending a football coaching session in Oldham.
Farmers in Bengal have used fibers from the tall jute plant for centuries to weave into bags and clothing.
At the same time, it is blessed with other natural and marine resources as the country stretches from the north of the Bay of Bengal to the vast Indian Ocean.
The INS Chakra II will operate from the Visakhapatnam base in the Bay of Bengal.
In Bangladesh and West Bengal, the water has anywhere from 300 micrograms per liter to 4, 000 micrograms per liter of arsenic.
It enjoys immense natural resources and dominance of international trade routes to and from south central China and the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean.
Recent grumbling from Congress's two biggest allies, West Bengal's Trinamul Congress (TC) and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam of Tamil Nadu, have raised fears of this.
Many Yadavs, whose community stretches from Bihar to the two neighboring states of Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal, credit Laloo Prasad for bringing economic empowerment to what was once a backward caste group.
As The Economist went to press, Mamata Banerjee, chief minister of West Bengal and leader of the Trinamool Congress, was threatening to withdraw her ministers from the coalition.
Starting in the cyclone-prone region of the Sunderbans in West Bengal, Dilip is enabling communities to use disaster management as a starting point from which to launch efforts to prioritize real needs and design programs that both strengthen communities for the long-term and further the aims of sustainable development.
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The row centres on the pricing of natural gas from one of India's biggest fields, in the Krishna Godavari basin in the Bay of Bengal.
And the various trades in movie land from the production designers to the boom operators were likely jazzed by "Pi's" technological achievements, notably the digitally enhanced Bengal tiger that even the movie's harsher critics believed to have stolen the movie from its human actors.
Aside from best director, the 3D film - based on the Booker-winning novel about a shipwrecked boy and a Bengal tiger - won awards for cinematography, score and visual effects.
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