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the Bengal chess player Moheschunder Bannerjee in 1855 introduced the body of openings now known as Indian defence?

for nearly three centuries until 1956, the Burdwan Zamindari, one of the richest feudal estates in Bengal, was held by the same Punjabi family (family member pictured)?

the Baharistan-i-Ghaibi is the only extensive historical document accounting the wars, events and life in Bengal during the reign of Mughal emperor Jahangir?

the Pagal Panthis were a religious order who led the peasants of the Mymensingh region of Bengal in armed revolts against the British East India Company and zamindars?

while the rest of India worships the Hindu wealth-goddess Lakshmi, Bengalis venerate the fearsome goddess Kali (pictured) today on Kali Puja?

for about a millennium, the Hindu kings of Bishnupur were supreme in the Bankura area, even after Muslims conquered Bengal?

Sir Richard Garth was a barrister, MP, Privy Counsellor and Chief Justice of Bengal as well as Lord of the Manor of Morden?

Hakim Habibur Rahman, a Unani physician, collected all the Arabic, Persian and Urdu books written in Bengal for more than 40 years and published a catalog titled Sulasa Ghusala?

Bengali nationalism motivated the proposal for a united, independent Bengal as an alternative to the 1947 partition of Bengal?

Islam Khan was the founder of the modern city of Dhaka and the first Mughal general to subjugate Bengal?

Oladevi, a deity whose worship may have originated in the Indus Valley Civilization, was honoured and feared as the goddess of cholera in rural Bengal?

Sarat Chandra Bose, the brother of Subhash Chandra Bose attempted to obtain independence for a united Bengal with Muslim leader Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy in 1947?

17th-century Mughal subahdar Shaista Khan conquered Chittagong and ousted the British East India Company from Bengal over a trade dispute?

Bengal

1 The highest point in Bangladesh is in Mowdok range at 1,052 metres (3,451 ft) in the ________ to the southeast of the country.

2 ________ is also produced commercially; the region is well known for Darjeeling and other high quality teas.

3 Subsequent ________ helped spread Islam throughout the region.

4 In the southern part of the delta lies the Sundarbans—the world's largest mangrove forest and home of the ________.

5 Undocumented immigration of Bangladeshi workers is a controversial issue[61] championed by right-wing nationalist parties in India but finds little sympathy in ________.

6 The ________ tradition is a unique heritage of Bangla folk music.

7 Bengali women commonly wear the shaŗi and the ________, often distinctly designed according to local cultural customs.

8 [36] Other religious groups include Buddhists, ________, and Animists.

9 [58] ________ and football are popular sports in the Bengal region.

10 The first recorded independent king of Bengal was ________, reigning around early 7th century.

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