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History of Dhaka, the Glossary

Dhaka (Dacca) is a modern megacity with origins dating to circa the 7th century CE.^[1]

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Histories of cities in Bangladesh

Ahmad Hasan Dani

Ahmad Hassan Dani (Urdu: احمد حسن دانی) FRAS, SI, HI (20 June 1920 – 26 January 2009) was a well known Pakistani archaeologist, historian, and linguist.

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Ahsan Manzil

Ahsan Manzil is a palace located in the Kumartoli area of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Akbar

Abu'l-Fath Jalal-ud-din Muhammad Akbar (–), popularly known as Akbar the Great, and also as Akbar I, was the third Mughal emperor, who reigned from 1556 to 1605.

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Ala-ud-din Husain Shah (আলাউদ্দিন হোসেন শাহ (1493–1519) was an independent late medieval Sultan of Bengal, who founded the Hussain Shahi dynasty. He became the ruler of Bengal after assassinating the Abyssinian Sultan, Shams-ud-Din Muzaffar Shah, whom he had served under as wazir.

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All India Muhammadan Educational Conference

The All India Muhammadan Educational Conference was an organisation promoting modern, liberal education for the Muslim community in India.

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All-India Muslim League

The All-India Muslim League (AIML), simply called the Muslim League, was a political party established in Dhaka in 1906 when some well-known Muslim politicians met the Viceroy of India, Lord Minto, with the goal of securing Muslim interests in British India.

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Annisul Huq

Annisul Huq (27 September 1952 – 30 November 2017) was a Bangladeshi entrepreneur, television show host and the mayor of Dhaka North City Corporation.

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Armanitola

Armanitola (আরমানিটোলা) is an area in the old city of Dhaka, the capital and largest city of Bangladesh.

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Armenian Church, Dhaka

The Armenian Church, also known as Armenian Apostolic Church of the Holy Resurrection (Armenian: Դաքքայի Սուրբ Յարութիւն Եկեղեցի), is a historically significant architectural monument situated in the Armanitola area of old Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Armenians

Armenians (hayer) are an ethnic group and nation native to the Armenian highlands of West Asia.

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Assam

Assam is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys.

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Aurangzeb

Muhi al-Din Muhammad (3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known as italics, was the sixth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707.

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Awami League

The Bangladesh Awami League (বাংলাদেশ আওয়ামী লীগ), often simply called the Awami League, is one of the major political parties in Bangladesh.

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Ayub Khan

Muhammad Ayub Khan (14 May 190719 April 1974), better known as Ayub Khan, was a Pakistani military officer who served as the second president of Pakistan from 1958 to 1969.

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Azim-ush-Shan

Mirza Azim-ush-Shan (15 December 1664 – 18 March 1712) was the second son of Mughal emperor Shah Alam I, by his second wife, Amrita Bai, Princess of Kishangarh.

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Azimpur, Dhaka

Azimpur (আজিমপুর) is an old region in the old part of Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh.

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Bahadur Shah Park

Bahadur Shah Park, formerly known as Victoria Park, is a historically significant urban park located in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Baharistan-i-Ghaibi

The Baharistan-i-Ghaibi (بهارستان غیبی), written by Mirza Nathan, is a 17th-century chronicle on the history of Bengal, Cooch Behar, Assam and Bihar under the reign of Mughal emperor Jahangir (1605–1627).

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Bakla, Bangladesh

Bakla is a village in Barisal District in the Barisal Division of southern-central Bangladesh.

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Baldha Garden

Baldha Garden is a botanical garden which spans of land located at Wari in the old part of the city of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.

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Ballāla Sena

Ballāla Sena or Ballal Sen (বল্লাল সেন; reign: 1160–1179), also known as Ballal Sen in vernacular literature, was the second ruler of the Sena dynasty of Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent.

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Bampfylde Fuller

Sir Joseph Bampfylde Fuller (20 March 1854 – 29 November 1935) was a British inventor, writer and first Lieutenant Governor of the new province of Eastern Bengal and Assam, knighted for his service in India.

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Banani (neighbourhood)

Banani is an upscale residential and commercial neighbourhood and a thana of Dhaka, often considered a part of the neighbouring Gulshan area.

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Bangladesh Nationalist Party

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Dal, BNP or Nationalist Party) is a major political party in Bangladesh.

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Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Bānlādēśa prakauśala biśbabidyālaẏa), commonly known by the acronym BUET, is a public technological research university in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Bank of Calcutta

The Bank of Calcutta (a precursor to the present State Bank of India) was founded on 2 June 1806, mainly to fund General Arthur Wellesley's wars against Tipu Sultan and the Marathas.

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Bara Katra

Bara Katra (বড় কাটরা) is one of the oldest historical and architectural monuments in Dhaka.

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Baro-Bhuyan

The Baro-Bhuyans (or Baro-Bhuyan Raj; also Baro-Bhuians and Baro-Bhuiyans) were confederacies of soldier-landowners in Assam and Bengal in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period.

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Battle of Buxar

The Battle of Buxar was fought between 22 and 23 October 1764, between the forces of the British East India Company, under the command of Major Hector Munro, and the combined armies of Balwant Singh, Maharaja of the Banaras State; Mir Qasim, Nawab of Bengal; Shuja-ud-Daula, Nawab of Awadh; and Shah Alam II, Emperor of the Mughal Empire.

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Battle of Plassey

The Battle of Plassey was a decisive victory of the British East India Company, under the leadership of Robert Clive, over the Nawab of Bengal and his French allies on 23 June 1757.

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Battle of Rajmahal

The Battle of Rajmahal (রাজমহলের যুদ্ধ) took place between the Mughal Empire and the Karrani Dynasty that ruled the Sultanate of Bengal in the 16th century.

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Battle of Tukaroi

The Battle of Tukaroi, also known as the Battle of Bajhaura or the Battle of Mughulmari, was fought between the Mughal Empire and the Bengal Sultanate on 3 March 1575 near the village of Tukaroi in present-day Balasore District of Odisha.

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Bengal

Geographical distribution of the Bengali language Bengal (Bôṅgo) or endonym Bangla (Bāṅlā) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.

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Bengal Subah

The Bengal Subah, also referred to as Mughal Bengal, was the largest subdivision of the Mughal Empire encompassing much of the Bengal region, which includes modern-day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and some parts of the present-day Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha between the 16th and 18th centuries.

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Bengal Sultanate

The Bengal Sultanate (Middle Bengali: শাহী বাঙ্গালা, Classical Persian:, Arabic) was a late medieval sultanate based in the Bengal region between the 14th and 16th century.

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Bengali Hindus

Bengali Hindus (translit) are an ethnoreligious population who make up the majority in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Jharkhand, and Assam's Barak Valley region.

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Bengali language movement

The Bengali language movement was a political movement in former East Bengal in 1952, advocating the recognition of the Bengali language as a co-lingua franca of the then-Dominion of Pakistan to allow its use in government affairs, the continuation of its use as a medium of education, its use in media, currency and stamps, and to maintain its writing in the Bengali script.

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Bengali Muslims

Bengali Muslims (বাঙালি মুসলমান) are adherents of Islam who ethnically, linguistically and genealogically identify as Bengalis.

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Bhati (region)

Bhati was a large region of medieval Bengal, referred to by Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak and by others until at least the 17th-century CE, during the period of the Mughal Empire.

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Bhulua Kingdom

The Kingdom of Bhulua (Bhulua Rajjo) was a kingdom and later a zamindari covering the present-day Noakhali region of Bangladesh.

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Bihar

Bihar is a state in Eastern India.

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Bikrampur

Bikrampur ("City of Courage") was a pargana situated south of Dhaka, the modern capital city of Bangladesh.

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Binat Bibi Mosque

Binat Bibi Mosque (বিনত বিবির মসজিদ) is the earliest surviving mosque in Dhaka built in 1454 by Bakht Binat, the daughter of Marhamat.

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Brahmaputra River

The Brahmaputra is a trans-boundary river which flows through Tibet (China), Northeastern India, and Bangladesh.

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British Indian Army

The Indian Army during British rule, also referred to as the British Indian Army, was the main military force of the British Indian Empire until 1947.

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Buckland Bund

Buckland Bund (বাকল্যান্ড বাঁধ) is a historically significant architectural creation situated by the Buriganga river bank of Old Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Butea monosperma

Butea monosperma is a species of Butea native to tropical and sub-tropical parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia.

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Caravanserai

A caravanserai (or caravansary) was a roadside inn where travelers (caravaners) could rest and recover from the day's journey.

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Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis

Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, KG, PC (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805) was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator.

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Charles D'Oyly

Sir Charles D'Oyly, 7th Baronet (1781–1845), was a British public official and painter from Dacca (now Dhaka).

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Chawk Mosque

Chawkbazar Shahi Mosque (চকবাজার শাহী মসজিদ) also known as Chawk Mosque is a mosque located in the Chowk Bazaar area in the old city of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Chhota Katra

Choto Katra (ছোট কাটারা; Small Katra) is one of two Katras built during Mughal's regime in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Chishti Order

The Chishti order (translit) is a Sufi order of Sunni Islam named after the town of Chisht where it was initiated by Abu Ishaq Shami.

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Chittagong

Chittagong, officially Chattogram (Côṭṭôgrām, Chittagonian: চাটগাঁও Sāṭgão), is the second-largest city in Bangladesh.

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Chowk Bazaar

Chawk Bazaar is a sprawling wholesale market area in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with hundreds of shops, market stalls and vendors.

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Christian cemetery, Dhaka

The Dhaka Christian Cemetery (also known as the Narinda Cemetery) is a graveyard situated in Wari, a district of the old town in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Curzon Hall

Curzon Hall is a British Raj-era building and the home of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Dhaka, located in Shahbagh.

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D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation

The D-8 Organization for Economic Cooperation, also known as Developing-8, is an organisation for development co-operation among Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Turkey.

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Dasharathadeva

Raja Dasarathadeva Danujmadhava (Raja Danuaja Rai) was the last known Hindu king of East Bengal.

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Daud Khan Karrani

Daud Khan Karrani (died on 12 July 1576) was the last ruler of Bengal's Karrani dynasty as well as the final Sultan of Bengal, reigning from 1572 to 1576.

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Décadas da Ásia

Décadas da Ásia (Decades of Asia) is a history of the Portuguese in Asia (particularly India) and southeast Africa collected and published by João de Barros between 1552 and 1563, while living abroad.

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Delhi

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.

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Delhi Sultanate

The Delhi Sultanate or the Sultanate of Delhi was a late medieval empire primarily based in Delhi that stretched over large parts of the Indian subcontinent, for 320 years (1206–1526).

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Deva dynasty

Deva Dynasty (c. 12th – 13th centuries) was a Bengali Hindu Kayastha dynasty which originated in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent; the dynasty ruled over eastern Bengal after the Sena dynasty.

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Dhak (instrument)

The dhak is a huge membranophone instrument from Bengal and Assam.

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Dhaka

Dhaka (or; Ḍhākā), formerly known as Dacca, is the capital and largest city of Bangladesh.

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Dhaka Cantonment

Dhaka Cantonment (ঢাকা সেনানিবাস) is a Cantonment located in the northern part of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Dhaka City Corporation

Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) was the former self-governing corporation that was entrusted with the task of administering the municipal affairs of Dhaka.

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Dhaka College

Dhaka College (ঢাকা কলেজ) also known as DC is one of the most popular as well as the oldest higher educational institution of Bangladesh located in Dhanmondi, Dhaka.

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Dhaka Gate

Dhaka Gate also known as Mir Jumla's Gate or Ramna Gate is a monument believed to be built by Mir Jumla II and enlisted as one of the oldest Mughal architectures in Dhaka.

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Dhaka Metro Rail

The Dhaka Metro Rail (ঢাকা মেট্রোরেল), or simply the Dhaka Metro, is a mass rapid transit system serving Dhaka, the capital and largest city of Bangladesh.

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Dhaka North City Corporation

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) or Dhaka Uttar City Corporation was created as an autonomous body that governs 54 northern wards of Dhaka to better manage local services, but has since added new areas.

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Dhaka Prakash

Dhaka (Dacca) Prakash (ঢাকা প্রকাশ) was the first Bengali language newspaper published in Dhaka, capital of East Bengal (present-day Bangladesh).

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Dhaka South City Corporation

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) is one of the two municipal corporations in Dhaka created when the former Dhaka City Corporation (first declared in 1864) was divided into two by the Local Government (City Corporation) Amendment Bill 2011 on 29 November 2011, passed in the Parliament of Bangladesh, following the President's approval.

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Dhakeshwari Temple

Dhakeshwari National Temple (translit) is a Hindu temple in Old Dhaka (inhabited since 7th century, 600 A.D.), Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Dhanmondi Shahi Eidgah

The Dhanmondi Shahi Eidgah (ধানমণ্ডী শাহী ঈদগাহ), also known as Mughal Eidgah (মোগল ঈদগাহ), is located in Saat Masjid road, in Dhanmondi residential area of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Dhanmondi Thana

Dhanmondi (ধানমন্ডি) is an upscale residential and commercial neighbourhood and a thana (police jurisdiction) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, known for its central location, cultural vibrancy and being home to the country's founder, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

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Diocese of Calcutta (Church of North India)

The Diocese of Calcutta was established in 1813 as part of the Church of England.

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District magistrate

The district magistrate, also known as the district collector or deputy commissioner, is a career civil servant who serves as the executive head of a district's administration in India.

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Durga Puja

Durga Puja (ISO), also known as Durgotsava or Sharodotsav, is an annual festival originating in the Indian subcontinent which reveres and pays homage to the Hindu goddess Durga, and is also celebrated because of Durga's victory over Mahishasura.

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Eastern Bengal and Assam

Eastern Bengal and Assam was a province of India between 1905 and 1912.

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Eden Mohila College

Eden Mohila College (known as Eden College), is a women's college in Azimpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Edwin Landseer

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (7 March 1802 – 1 October 1873) was an English painter and sculptor, well known for his paintings of animals – particularly horses, dogs, and stags.

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Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah

Fakhruddin Mubarak Shah (ফখরুদ্দীন মুবারক শাহ, فخر الدین مبارک شاه; reigned: 1338–1349), also known simply as Fakhra, was the founder of an independent sultanate comprising modern-day eastern and southeastern Bangladesh.

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Fakir

Fakir, faqeer, or faqīr (فقیر (noun of faqr)), derived from faqr (فقر, 'poverty'), is an Islamic term traditionally used for Sufi Muslim ascetics who renounce their worldly possessions and dedicate their lives to the worship of God.

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Fort William, India

Fort William is a fort in Hastings, Calcutta (Kolkata).

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François Bernier

François Bernier (25 September 162022 September 1688) was a French physician and traveller.

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Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt

Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt (25 June 1874 – 11 June 1963) was a British diplomat and writer.

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Gauḍa (city)

Gauḍa (also known as Gaur, Gour, Lakhnauti, Lakshmanavati and Jannatabad) is a historic city of Bengal in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent, and one of the most prominent capitals of classical and medieval India, being the capital city of Bengal under several kingdoms.

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George Cotton

George Edward Lynch Cotton (29 October 1813 – 6 October 1866) was the Bishop of Calcutta.

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George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, (11 January 1859 – 20 March 1925), styled The Honourable between 1858 and 1898, then known as The Lord Curzon of Kedleston between 1898 and 1911, and The Earl Curzon of Kedleston between 1911 and 1921, was a prominent British statesman, Conservative politician and writer who served as Viceroy of India from 1899 to 1905.

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Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah

Ghiyasuddin Bahadur Shah I (গিয়াসউদ্দিন বাহাদুর শাহ, غیاث الدین بهادر شاه) was the son and successor of Sultan Shamsuddin Firoz Shah of the Bengal kingdom of Lakhnauti.

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Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq

Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq (غیاث الدین تغلق), or Ghazi Malik (Ghazi means fighter for Islam; died 1 February 1325) was the Sultan of Delhi from 1320 to 1325.

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Gopala I

Gopala (গোপাল) (ruled –770s CE) was the founder of the Pala dynasty, which was based in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent.

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Governor-General of India

The governor-general of India (1833 to 1950, from 1858 to 1947 the viceroy and governor-general of India, commonly shortened to viceroy of India) was the representative of the monarch of the United Kingdom in their capacity as the Emperor/Empress of India and after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Monarch of India.

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Gross domestic product

Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.

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Gulshan Thana

Gulshan (Gulaśāna) is a thana situated in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Gupta Empire

The Gupta Empire was an ancient Indian empire on the Indian subcontinent which existed from the mid 3rd century CE to mid 6th century CE.

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Hazratbal Shrine

The Hazratbal Shrine (درگاه حَضْرَت بل), popularly called Dargah Sharif ("the Holy Shrine"), is a Muslim shrine located in Hazratbal locality of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, India.

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Hemanta Sena

Hemanta Sena (Hemantasena), the founder of the Hindu Sena dynasty in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent.

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Hindus

Hindus (also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma.

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History of Chittagong

The city of Chattogram (Chittagong) is traditionally centred around its seaport which has existed since the 4th century BCE. History of Dhaka and History of Chittagong are Histories of cities in Bangladesh.

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History of Rangpur

The Rangpur region predominantly includes the northern Bangladeshi districts of Rangpur, Gaibandha, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat and Nilphamari.

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Holy Rosary Church, Dhaka

Holy Rosary Church is a Roman Catholic church in the Tejgaon area of Dhaka.

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Hooghly district

Hooghly district is one of the districts of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Hussaini Dalan

The Hussaini Dalan (হোসেনি দালান, حسیني دلان) is an Imambara that was originally built during the later half of the Mughal rule in the 17th century in Dhaka.

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Ibrahim Khan Fath-i-Jang

Mirza Ibrahim Beg (میرزا ابراهیمبیگ), later known as Ibrahim Khan Fath-i-Jang (ابراهیمخان فتح جنگ; d. 1624) was the Subahdar of Bengal during the reign of Mughal emperor Jahangir.

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Ichamati River

Ichamati River (ইছামতী নদী.) (also spelt Ichhamati), is a trans-boundary river which flows through India and Bangladesh and also forms part of the boundary between the two countries.

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Indian Army

The Indian Army is the land-based branch and largest component of the Indian Armed Forces.

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Indian Rebellion of 1857

The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown.

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Indian subcontinent

The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate, projecting southwards into the Indian Ocean from the Himalayas.

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Isa Khan

Isa Khan (Middle Bengali: ঈশা খাঁ, c. 17 April 1536 –29 August 1599) was the leader of the 16th-century Baro-Bhuiyan chieftains of Bengal.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Islam Khan I

Shaikh Alauddin Chisti (1570–1613; known as Islam Khan Chisti) was a Mughal general and the Subahdar of Bengal.

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Jahangir

Nur-ud-din Muhammad Salim (31 August 1569 – 28 October 1627), known by his imperial name Jahangir, was the fourth Mughal Emperor, who ruled from 1605 till his death in 1627.

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James Atkinson (Persian scholar)

James Atkinson (17 March 1780 – 7 August 1852) was a surgeon, artist and Persian scholar — "a Renaissance man among Anglo-Indians".

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James Rennell

Major James Rennell, (3 December 1742 – 29 March 1830) was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography.

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Jammu and Kashmir (state)

Jammu and Kashmir was a region formerly administered by India as a state from 1952 to 2019, constituting the southern and southeastern portion of the larger Kashmir region, which has been the subject of a dispute between India, Pakistan and China since the mid-20th century.

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Jean-Baptiste Tavernier

Jean-Baptiste Tavernier (1605–1689) was a 17th-century French gem merchant and traveler.

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Jessore

Jessore (jôshor), officially Jashore, is a city of Jessore District in Khulna Division.

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Joaquim Joseph A. Campos

Joachim Joseph A. Campos (1893 – 13 May 1945), also known as J.J.A. Campos, was a writer, editor, and took an active interest in history.

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João de Barros

João de Barros (1496 – 20 October 1570), nicknamed the "Portuguese Livy", is one of the first great Portuguese historians, most famous for his Décadas da Ásia (Decades of Asia), a history of the Portuguese in India, Asia, and southeast Africa.

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Johan Zoffany

Johan / Johann Joseph Zoffany (born Johannes Josephus Zaufallij; 13 March 1733 – 11 November 1810) was a German neoclassical painter who was active mainly in England, Italy, and India.

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Kalhana

Kalhana (translit) was the author of Rajatarangini (River of Kings), an account of the history of Kashmir.

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Kali Charan Banerjee

Kali Charan Banerjee (1847–1907), spelt also as Kalicharan Banerji or K.C. Banerjea or K.C. Banurji, was a Bengali convert to Christianity through the Free Church of Scotland, the founder of Calcutta Christo Samaj, a Calcutta lawyer, and a founding member of the Indian National Congress.

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Kamalapur railway station

Kamalapur Railway Station, officially Dhaka Railway Station, is the central railway station in Kamalapur, Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh.

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Karrani dynasty

The Karrani dynasty (Karlāṇī, Korrāṇī) was founded in 1564 by Taj Khan Karrani, an ethnic Afghan from the Karlani tribe, hailing from Bangash district.

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Kartalab Khan Mosque

The Kartalab Khan Mosque or Begum Bazar Mosque, in the Begum Bazar area in old Dhaka, Bangladesh, was built by Nawab Diwan Murshid Quli Khan (alias Kartalab Khan) between 1700 and 1704.

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Kashmir

Kashmir is the northernmost geographical region of the Indian subcontinent.

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Khan Mohammad Mridha Mosque

The Khan Mohammad Mridha Mosque is a historical mosque near Lalbagh Fort in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Khwaja Abdul Ghani

Nawab Bahadur Sir Khwaja Abdul Ghani (30 July 1813 – 24 August 1896) was the second Nawab of Dhaka and the first to assume the title of Nawab as hereditary, recognized by the British Raj.

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Khwaja Ahsanullah

Nawab Bahadur Sir Khwaja Ahsanullah KCIE (22 August 1846 – 16 December 1901) was the third Nawab of Dhaka.

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Khwaja Alimullah

Khwaja Alimullah (died 24 August 1854) was the first Nawab of Dhaka.

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Kingdom of Gauda

The Gauḍa Kingdom (Gauṛa Rājya) was a kingdom during the Classical era in the Indian subcontinent, which originated in the Gauda region of Bengal (modern-day West Bengal and Bangladesh) in 4th century CE or possibly earlier.

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Kingdom of Mrauk U

The Kingdom of Mrauk-U (Arakanese: မြောက်ဦး ဘုရင့်နိုင်ငံတော်) was a kingdom that existed on the Arakan littoral from 1429 to 1785.

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Lalbagh Fort

Lalbagh Fort (translit) is a fort in the old city of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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List of governors of Bengal Presidency

The Governor of Bengal was the head of the executive government of the Bengal Presidency from 1834 to 1854 and again from 1912 to 1947.

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List of largest cities

The United Nations uses three definitions for what constitutes a city, as not all cities in all jurisdictions are classified using the same criteria.

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Mahmud Shah of Bengal

Nāṣiruddīn Maḥmūd Shāh (নাসিরউদ্দীন মাহমুদ শাহ, ناصر الدین محمد شاه) was the first Sultan of Bengal belonging to the restored Ilyas Shahi dynasty.

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Man Singh I

Mirza Raja Man Singh I (21 December 1550 – 6 July 1614) was the 24th Maharaja of Kingdom of Amber from 1589 to 1614.

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Marma people

The Marma (မာရမာ တိုင်းရင်းသား), also known as Moghs, Mogs or Maghs, are the second-largest ethnic community in Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts, primarily residing in the Bandarban, Khagrachari and Rangamati Hill Districts.

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Mary Carpenter

Mary Carpenter (3 April 1807 – 14 June 1877) was an English educational and social reformer.

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Megacity

A megacity is a very large city, typically with a population of more than 10 million people.

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Mir Jumla II

Mir Jumla II (12 February 1591 – 30 March 1663), or Amir Jumla, also known as Ardistānī Mir Muhammad, was a military general, wealthy diamond trader, a Vizier of Golconda sultanate, and later a prominent subahdar of Bengal under the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.

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Mir Qasim

Mir Qasim (মীর কাশিম; died 8 May 1777) was the Nawab of Bengal from 1760 to 1763.

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Mirpur Model Thana

Mirpur (মিরপুর) is a thana of Dhaka city, Bangladesh.

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Mitford Hospital, Dhaka

Mitford Hospital is a public hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Mohammad Hanif (mayor)

Mohammad Hanif (died 28 November 2006) was a Bangladeshi Politician who served as Mayor of Dhaka City Corporation from 1994 until 2002.

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Motijheel Thana

Motijheel (মতিঝিল) is a central business district and a thana of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Mughal Empire

The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia.

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Muhammad

Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.

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Muhammad Azam Shah

Mirza Abu'l Fayaz Qutb-ud-Din Mohammad Azam (28 June 1653 – 20 June 1707), commonly known as Azam Shah, was briefly the seventh Mughal emperor from 14 March to 20 June 1707.

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Muhammad Khan Sur

Muhammad Khan Sur, also known by his regnal title Shamsuddin Muhammad Shah Ghazi, was the Sultan of Bengal from 1553 to 1555.

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Munshiganj

Munshiganj is a town in Dhaka division in central Bangladesh.

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Murshid Quli Khan

Murshid Quli Khan (1660 – 30 June 1727), also known as Mohammad Hadi and born as Surya Narayan Mishra, was the first Nawab of Bengal, serving from 1717 to 1727.

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Murshidabad

Murshidabad is a historical city in the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Musa Khan of Bengal

Musa Khan (মূসা খাঁ, r. 1599–1610) was the leader of the Bara-Bhuiyans of Bengal following the death of his father, Isa Khan, who is known for resisting the Mughal invasion of Bengal.

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Muslin

Muslin is a cotton fabric of plain weave.

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Mymensingh

Mymensingh (ময়মনসিংহ) is a metropolitan city and capital of Mymensingh Division, Bangladesh.

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Naib Nazim of Dhaka

The Naib Nazim of Dhaka, officially the Naib Nazim of Jahangir Nagar, was the chief political officer in the city of Dhaka, the present-day capital of Bangladesh, between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries.

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Narayanganj

Narayanganj (translit) is a city in central Bangladesh in the Greater Dhaka area.

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Nawab of Dhaka

The Nawab of Dhaka (Bengali: "ঢাকার নবাব"), originally spelt in English Nawab of Dacca, was the title of the head of one of the largest Muslim zamindar in British Bengal and Assam, based in present-day Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Nawabs of Bengal

The Nawab of Bengal (বাংলার নবাব) was the hereditary ruler of Bengal Subah in Mughal India.

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New Market, Dhaka

New Market Copy is the largest commercial shopping market in Bangladesh in north of Azimpur, Dhaka.

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Niccolao Manucci

Niccolao Manucci (19 April 1638 – 1717) was a Venetian writer, a self-taught physician, and traveller, who wrote accounts of the Mughal Empire as a first-hand witness.

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Nicholas Pogose

Joachim Gregory Nicholas Pogose (Նիկոլաս Պոգոսե; known as Nicky Pogose; died) was an Armenian merchant and a zamindar.

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Nimtali arch

The Nimtali arch (known in Bengali as Nimtali Deuri) is an arch in Dhaka, Bangladesh dating from the Mughal period.

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Old Dhaka Central Jail

Dhaka Central Jail was the largest jail in Bangladesh, located in the old section of Dhaka, the country's capital.

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Operation Searchlight

Operation Searchlight was a military operation carried out by the Pakistan Army in an effort to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in former East Pakistan in March 1971.

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Pakistan Army

The Pakistan Army, commonly known as the Pak Army (پاک فوج|translit.

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Pakistan People's Party

The Pakistan People's Party (پاکستان پیپلز پارٹی,; PPP) is a centre-left political party in Pakistan.

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Pala Empire

The Pāla Empire (r. 750–1161 CE) was an imperial power during the post-classical period in the Indian subcontinent, which originated in the region of Bengal.

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Park Van Tassel

Park Albert Van Tassel (b.1853-d.1930) was a pioneering aerial exhibitionist in the United States.

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Partition of Bengal (1905)

The first Partition of Bengal (1905) was a territorial reorganization of the Bengal Presidency implemented by the authorities of the British Raj.

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Partition of India

The Partition of India in 1947 was the change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in the Indian subcontinent and the creation of two independent dominions in South Asia: India and Pakistan.

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Patna

Patna, historically known as Pataliputra, is the capital and largest city of the state of Bihar in India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Patna had a population of 2.35 million, making it the 19th largest city in India. Covering and over 2.5 million people, its urban agglomeration is the 15th largest in India.

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Permanent Settlement

The Permanent Settlement, also known as the Permanent Settlement of Bengal, was an agreement between the East India Company and landlords of Bengal to fix revenues to be raised from land that had far-reaching consequences for both agricultural methods and productivity in the entire British Empire and the political realities of the Indian countryside.

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Philip Hartog

Sir Philip Joseph Hartog (2 March 1864 – 27 June 1947) was a British chemist and educationalist who undertook this role in England and India.

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Pogose School

Pogose Laboratory School and College, IER, Jagannath University (পোগোজ ল্যাবরেটরি স্কুল এন্ড কলেজ,আ.ই.আর,জগন্নাথ বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়) was established in Dhaka on June 12, 1848, as the first private school of the country by Armenian merchant Nicholas Pogose, who was an ex-student of Dhaka Collegiate School.

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Pope Francis

Pope Francis (Franciscus; Francesco; Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936) is head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State.

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Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Jan Paweł II; Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła,; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.

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Pope Paul VI

Pope Paul VI (Paulus VI; Paolo VI; born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini,; 26 September 18976 August 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 21 June 1963 to his death on 6 August 1978.

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Portuguese people

The Portuguese people (– masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country in the west of the Iberian Peninsula in the south-west of Europe, who share a common culture, ancestry and language.

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Post-classical history

In world history, post-classical history refers to the period from about 500 CE to 1500 CE, roughly corresponding to the European Middle Ages.

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Potassium nitrate

Potassium nitrate is a chemical compound with a sharp, salty, bitter taste and the chemical formula.

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Prakrit

Prakrit is a group of vernacular Middle Indo-Aryan languages that were used in the Indian subcontinent from around the 3rd century BCE to the 8th century CE.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.

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Proto-industrialization

Proto-industrialization is the regional development, alongside commercial agriculture, of rural handicraft production for external markets.

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Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was an Indian poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance.

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Rajatarangini

Rājataraṅgiṇī (Sanskrit: राजतरङ्गिणी, romanized: rājataraṅgiṇī, IPA: ɾɑː.d͡ʑɐ.t̪ɐˈɾɐŋ.ɡi.ɳiː, "The River of Kings") is a metrical legendary and historical chronicle of the north-western part of Indian sub-continent, particularly the kings of Kashmir.

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Rajmahal

Rajmahal is a subdivisional town and a notified area in Rajmahal subdivision of the Sahebganj district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.

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Rakhine State

Rakhine State (Rakhine and), formerly known as Arakan State, is a state in Myanmar (Burma).

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Ralph Fitch

Ralph Fitch (1550 – 1611) was a gentleman, a merchant of London and one of the earliest British travellers and merchants to visit Mesopotamia, the Persian Gulf, Indian Ocean, South Asia & Southeast Asia including the court of Akbar the Great (Mughal emperor).

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Reginald Heber

Reginald Heber (21 April 1783 – 3 April 1826) was an English Anglican bishop, a man of letters, and hymn-writer.

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Samudragupta

Samudragupta (Gupta script: Sa-mu-dra-gu-pta, (c. 335–375 CE) was the second emperor of the Gupta Empire of ancient India, and is regarded among the greatest rulers of India. As a son of the Gupta emperor Chandragupta I and the Licchavi princess Kumaradevi, he greatly expanded his dynasty's political and military power.

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Sandwip

Sandwip (Shondip) is an island located along the southeastern coast of Bangladesh in the Chittagong District.

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Sannyasa

Sannyasa (Sanskrit: संन्यास; IAST), sometimes spelled Sanyasa or Sanyasi (for the person), is life of renunciation and the fourth stage within the Hindu system of four life stages known as Ashramas, with the first three being Brahmacharya (on the path of Brahma), Grihastha (householder) and Vanaprastha (forest dweller, retired).

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Sat Gambuj Mosque

The Sat Gambuj Mosque is near the northwestern outskirts of Dhaka in the Mohammadpur area.

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Sayeed Khokon

Sayeed Khokon is a Bangladeshi Businessman, Politician and Member of Parliament from Dhaka-6 Constituency.

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Sebastien Manrique

Fray Sebastien Manrique (Sebastião Manrique; c. 1590 – 1669) was a Portuguese Augustinian missionary and traveler.

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Sena dynasty

The Sena dynasty was a Hindu dynasty during the early medieval period on the Indian subcontinent, that ruled from Bengal through the 11th and 12th centuries.

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Sepoy

Sepoy, related to sipahi, is a term denoting professional Indian infantryman, traditionally armed with a musket, in the armies of the Mughal Empire and the Maratha Army.

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Shah Jahan

Mirza Shahab-ud-Din Muhammad Khurram (5 January 1592 – 22 January 1666), also known as Shah Jahan I, was the fifth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1628 until 1658.

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Shah Shuja (Mughal prince)

Mirza Shah Shuja (Persian: میرزا شاه شجاع) (23 June 1616 – 7 February 1661) was the second son of the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and Empress Mumtaz Mahal.

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Shaista Khan

Mirza Abu Talib (b. 22 November 1600 – d. 1694), better known as Shaista Khan, was a Moghul General and the Subahdar of Mughal Bengal, he was maternal uncle to the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb, he acted as a key figure during his reign, Shaista Khan initially governed the Deccan, where he clashed with the Maratha ruler Shivaji, However, he was most notable for his tenure as the governor of Bengal from 1664 to 1688, Under Shaista Khan's authority, the city of Dhaka and Mughal power in the province attained its greatest heights.

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Shaivism

Shaivism (translit-std) is one of the major Hindu traditions, which worships Shiva as the Supreme Being.

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Shamsuddin Firuz Shah

Shamsuddin Firuz Shah (شمس الدين فيروز شاه, শামসুদ্দীন ফিরুজ শাহ, Shams Ad-Dīn Firūz Shāh; reigned: 1301–1322) was the independent ruler of the Lakhnauti Kingdom.

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Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah

Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah was the founder of the Sultanate of Bengal and its inaugural Ilyas Shahi dynasty.

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Shankhari Bazaar

Shankhari Bazaar is one of the oldest areas in Old Dhaka broadly known as Shankhari Potti.

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Shashanka

Shashanka (IAST: Śaśāṅka, Sanskrit: शशाङ्क Bengali: শশাঙ্ক) was the first independent king of a unified polity in the Bengal region, called the Gauda Kingdom.

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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (17 March 1920 – 15 August 1975), popularly known by the honorific prefix Bangabandhu, was a Bangladeshi politician, revolutionary, statesman, activist and diarist.

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Sher Shah Suri

Sher Shah Suri (Farid al-Din Khan; 1472 or 1486 – 22 May 1545), also known by his title Sultan Adil (Just King), was the ruler of Bihar from 1530 to 1540, and Sultan of Hindustan from 1540 until his death in 1545.

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Shia Islam

Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.

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Shipbuilding

Shipbuilding is the construction of ships and other floating vessels.

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Shitalakshya River

Shitalakshya River (Śītalakṣya Nadī pronounced: Shitalokkha Nodi) (also known as Lakshymā River) is a distributary of the Brahmaputra.

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Siraj ud-Daulah

Mirza Muhammad Siraj-ud-Daulah (1733 – 2 July 1757), commonly known as Siraj-ud-Daulah or Siraj ud-Daula, was the last independent Nawab of Bengal.

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Sonargaon

Sonargaon (সোনারগাঁও; pronounced in Bengali as Show-naar-gaa; lit. Golden Hamlet) is a historic city in central Bangladesh.

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South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation

The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is the regional intergovernmental organization and geopolitical union of states in South Asia.

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South Asian Games

The South Asian Games (SAG or SA Games), formerly known as the South Asian Federation Games (SAFG or SAF Games), is a quadrennial multi-sport event held among the athletes from South Asia.

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St Thomas Church, Dhaka

St Thomas Cathedral Church is a cathedral belonging to the Diocese of Dhaka of the Church of Bangladesh, which is a United Protestant denomination that formed as a result of a merger between the Anglican and Presbyterian churches in the region.

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Subahdar

Subahdar, also known as Nazim or in English as a "Subah", was one of the designations of a governor of a Subah (province) during the Khalji dynasty of Bengal, Mamluk dynasty, Khalji dynasty, Tughlaq dynasty, and the Mughal era who was alternately designated as Sahib-i-Subah or Nazim.

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Suhrawardy Udyan

Suhrawardy Udyan (সোহরাওয়ার্দী উদ্যান) is a national memorial and public space located in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Tehran

Tehran (تهران) or Teheran is the capital and largest city of Iran as well as the largest in Tehran Province.

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Tejgaon Thana

Tejgaon (তেজগাঁও) is a thana of Dhaka District in the Division of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Textile

Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, different fabric types, etc.

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Textile manufacturing

Textile manufacturing or textile engineering is a major industry.

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The Crown

The Crown broadly represents the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions (such as the Crown Dependencies, overseas territories, provinces, or states).

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The Dacca Bank (1846)

The Dacca Bank was a bank founded in 1846 in Dhaka, in the then British India.

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The Daily Star (Bangladesh)

The Daily Star is a Bangladeshi English-language daily newspaper.

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Thomas Bowrey

Thomas Bowrey (1659-1713) was an English merchant and mariner involved in the East Indies trade.

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Timeline of Dhaka

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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Tornado

A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.

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Treaty of Allahabad

The Treaty of Allahabad was signed on 16 August 1765, between the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II, son of the late Emperor Alamgir II, and Robert Clive, of the East India Company, in the aftermath of the Battle of Buxar of 22 October 1764.

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Tripura

Tripura is a state in Northeast India.

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Turkic peoples

The Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of West, Central, East, and North Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages.

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United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) is one of the five regional commissions under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

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University of Dhaka

The University of Dhaka (Ḍhākā biśbabidyālaẏa; also known as Dhaka University or DU) is a public research university located in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

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University of New Mexico Press

The University of New Mexico Press (UNMP) is a university press at the University of New Mexico.

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Urdu

Urdu (اُردُو) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.

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Varendra

Varendra (বরেন্দ্র), also known as Barind (বারিন্দ), was an ancient and historical territory of Northern Bengal, now mostly in Bangladesh and a little portion in the Indian state of West Bengal and Eastern Bihar.

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West Bengal

West Bengal (Bengali: Poshchim Bongo,, abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India.

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William Hedges (colonial administrator)

Sir William Hedges (21 October 1632 – 6 August 1701) was an English merchant and the first governor (1681–1683) of the East India Company (EIC) in Bengal.

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World economy

The world economy or global economy is the economy of all humans in the world, referring to the global economic system, which includes all economic activities conducted both within and between nations, including production, consumption, economic management, work in general, financial transactions and trade of goods and services.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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Worthing

Worthing is a seaside town and borough in West Sussex, England, at the foot of the South Downs, west of Brighton, and east of Chichester.

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Yogini Tantra

The Yogini Tantra is a 16th- or 17th-century tantric text by an unknown author either from Assam or Cooch Behar: "One of the most explicit descriptions of Tantric sexual rites occurs in Yogini tantra, a sixteenth-century text from Cooch Behar, immediately adjacent to Assam" and is dedicated to the worship of Hindu goddesses Kali and Kamakhya.

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References

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