East Bengal

Though, it was the Liberation War of the nation, Bangladesh, which had ignited a flow of mass migration of the populaces from the East Bengal, that is, East Pakistan (of the pre-independent era), but, the Government of India has totally failed to arrest the situation.

NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories 2009

Asia, local tournaments featuring teams such as East Bengal, Mohun Bagan and the Karachi

The Hindu - Front Page 2010

Asia, local tournaments featuring teams such as East Bengal, Mohun Bagan and the Karachi

The Guardian World News 2010

My mother was an exile from Germany, my father from East Bengal.

Voice of the East, Heard From the West Vibhuti Patel 2011

India is a potential source of revenue for Premier League clubs which has so far remained untapped; the nation has the largest emerging middle class in the world, and football, whilst increasingly popular last month 120,000 spectators watched Mohan Bagan face East Bengal in a local grudge match, suffers from crippling under-investment.

Matthew Handley: Are Blackburn Rovers' Owners Headless Chickens? Matthew Handley 2011

Telling the Muslims who had been responsible for the massacres of thousands of Hindus in East Bengal in 1946 that Islam "was a religion of peace," Gandhi nonetheless said to three of his workers who preceded him into its villages: "There will be no tears but only joy if tomorrow I get the news that all three of you were killed."

Among the Hagiographers Andrew Roberts 2011

India is a potential source of revenue for Premier League clubs which has so far remained untapped; the nation has the largest emerging middle class in the world, and football, whilst increasingly popular last month 120,000 spectators watched Mohan Bagan face East Bengal in a local grudge match, suffers from crippling under-investment.

Matthew Handley: Are Blackburn Rovers' Owners Headless Chickens? Matthew Handley 2011

During the 1971 India-Pakistan war and the East Bengal uprisings before that, Islamabad thought that the U.S. should have steadfastly stood by it, as is expected of a treaty ally.

The U.S. and Pakistan, Best of Frenemies Sumit Ganguly 2011

This inhuman antagonism could not exist in East Bengal, where, owing to the number of the Muslims and also to the fact that they were Bengali-speaking, the economic and social life of the two communities was interwoven.

Lapham's Quarterly: Why They Hate Them 2009

Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 43.1% male: 53.9% female: 31.8% (2003 est.) GovernmentCountry name: conventional long form: People's Republic of Bangladesh conventional short form: Bangladesh local long form: Gana Prajatantri Banladesh local short form: Banladesh former: East Bengal, East Pakistan

Bangladesh 2008