Mac Jamil

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@Fateh_E_Bangla @varendrapill When Humayun captured Gaur in 1538 from Sher Shah Suri, he was so enchanted by the city’s beauty that he reportedly renamed it Jannatabad, meaning “City of Paradise.” Instead of immediately pursuing Sher Shah, Humayun lingered in Gaur, enjoying the splendor of the city.

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@Thesonderous Ever put your clothes in an Almari? That’s from Armário. Even your Balti (bucket) and Chabi (key) are Portuguese souvenirs. And let’s not forget Pao-ruti (bread), Anaras (pineapple), and Kaju (cashew)—proof that Bengali cuisine has been internationally curated for centuries.

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@varendrapill A chapter titled“Niranjaner Rusma” (“The Anger of Niranjan”) describes Buddhists suffering under Brahmanical domination and being protected by Muslim pirs and gazis.

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@varendrapill The work is traditionally attributed to the poet-saint Ramai Pandit, who is believed to have lived around the 11th–12th century CE.

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@varendrapill Gangaridai: The heavyweight champs of the lower Ganges delta. Archaeological hotspots like Wari-Bateshwar and Chandraketugarh are tied to them.

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@varendrapill Back in 326 BCE, when Alexander the Great was busy collecting countries like Pokémon cards, he turned his conquering gaze toward India. But just as he was sizing up Bengal for potential empire real estate, he hit a massive, elephant-shaped roadblock: the Gangaridai kingdom.

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@Rustum_0 Kolkata

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@HartoshSinghBal Dutch official Jan Kersseboom offered perhaps the coldest summary of all: roughly 400,000 people in Bengal and Bihar perished during the invasions, including merchants, silk dealers, and weavers. Behind every statistic lay a burned village and an emptied marketplace.

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@ShashiRanjan68 @HartoshSinghBal Munshi Salimullah, in the Tarikh-i-Bangala, observed that “all the rich and respectable people abandoned their homes and migrated east of the Ganges in order to save the honour of their women.” Bengal became a refugee landscape.

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@ShashiRanjan68 @HartoshSinghBal John Holwell of EIC described catastrophic economic consequences. Bengal’s famed silk industry deteriorated as mulberry plantations were destroyed and weavers abandoned the aurangs—the manufacturing centers that had once made Bengali textiles globally prized.

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@ShashiRanjan68 @HartoshSinghBal Vaneshwar Vidyalankar, the Bardhaman court pandit and author of the Chitra Champu, described the Bargis as men “without pity,” killers of pregnant women, infants, Brahmins, and the poor alike. To him, they embodied the collapse of civilized restraint itself.

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@HartoshSinghBal Around 1690, Marathas decided that temples weren’t just places of worship. Tirupati, with its mountains of gold , looked particularly enticing. So, they swooped in, grabbed whatever shiny things they could, & presumably left a very confused temple administration in their wake.

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@ShekharGupta The Justice Dept. is planning to drop charges against Gautam Adani, after a lawyer for the billionaire made an unusual investment offer.

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@KStories2025 @irfhabib It appears to be a paraphrased or translated interpretation rather than a direct, verbatim quote from his most widely recognized literature.

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@SubhashiniAli @seemay It was a peasant uprising in Bengal against British indigo planters who used fraud, debt, and violence to force farmers to grow indigo at extremely low prices. Led by Bishnucharan and Digambar Biswas in Nadia, and later by Rafique Mondal in Malda and Kader Molla in Pabna.

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New online! Emerging trends in the global burden of colorectal cancer https://t.co/dCFWq2xpqm

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@DalrympleWill During the Gupta period in India, gold coins were referred to as dinara, a name that was directly inherited from the Latin denarius aureus, which served as the gold standard of the Roman Empire.

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@yzyprnofficial Bahai faith did not start in India.

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@Unnamed_Ocean As of 2026, the global Indian diaspora has grown to approximately 35.4 million people, making it the largest overseas community in the world.