The Bengal tiger is the national animal of Bangladesh and India.

The Bengal, Caspian and Siberian tiger subspecies represent the largest living felids, and rank among the biggest felids that ever existed.

The accepted record weight, per the Guinness Book of World Records, for a wild tiger was for a Bengal tiger shot in 1967, though its weight may have been boosted by the fact that it had eaten a water buffalo the previous night.

The Bengal tiger is the national animal of India and Bangladesh.

In the Man Booker Prize winning novel " Life of Pi ", the protagonist, Pi Patel, sole human survivor of a ship wreck in the Pacific Ocean, befriends another survivor: a large Bengal tiger.

# Hybrids between different subspecies within a species ( such as between the Bengal tiger and Siberian tiger ) are known as intra-specific hybrids.

*** Panthera tigris tigris ( Bengal tiger )

The name " Bengal cat " was derived from the taxonomic name of the Asian leopard cat ( P. b. bengalensis ), and not from the more distantly related Bengal tiger.

In 1963, RIT purchased a rescued Bengal tiger which became the Institute's mascot, named SPIRIT.

The project aims at ensuring a viable population of Bengal tiger in their natural habitats and preserving areas of biological importance as a natural heritage for the people.

Tiger pug marks at Sunderbans tiger reserve, West Bengal

It is also known under the informal name Königstiger ( the German name for the " Bengal tiger "), often mistranslated as King Tiger or Royal Tiger by Allied soldiers.

* Flyger: A flying Bengal tiger who was created by a crazy scientist.

The Bengal tiger ( Panthera tigris tigris ) or Indian tiger is a tiger subspecies native to South Asia, and is the national animal of India and Bangladesh.

The Bengal tiger is the most numerous tiger subspecies with populations estimated at 1, 706 – 1, 909 in India, 440 in Bangladesh, 124 – 229 in Nepal and 67 – 81 in Bhutan.

Bengal is traditionally fixed as the typical locality for the binomial Panthera tigris, to which the British taxonomist Reginald Innes Pocock subordinated the Bengal tiger in 1929 under the trinomial Panthera tigris tigris.

Bengal tiger, ( Panthera Tigris Tigris ) is the national animal of Bangladesh.

* Panthera, Inc .: Bengal Tiger

Image: Bengal ~ Tiger ( Panthera tigris tigris ) 2 ~ 11-29-08. JPG | Bengal Tiger at the American Museum of Natural History

These forest enclaves provide habitat to several at risk and endangered species, including the Bengal tiger ( Panthera tigris ), gaur ( Bos gaurus ), dhole ( Cuon alpinus ), sloth bear ( Melursus ursinus ), chousingha ( Tetracerus quadricornis ), and blackbuck ( Antilope cervicapra ).

Approximately 1, 020 endangered Bengal tigers ( Panthera tigris tigris ) are believed to inhabit the Sundarbans.

Examples of flagship species include the Bengal tiger ( Panthera tigris ), the giant panda ( Ailuropoda melanoleuca ), the Golden lion tamarin ( Leontopithecus rosalia ), the African elephant ( Loxodonta sp.

The area is known for the eponymous Royal Bengal Tiger ( Panthera tigris tigris ), as well as numerous fauna including species of birds, spotted deer, crocodiles and snakes.

There is much more wildlife here than just the endangered Royal Bengal Tiger ( Panthera tigris tigris ).

The remaining forests, together with the Sundarbans mangroves, are important habitats for the endangered Bengal Tiger ( Panthera tigris ).

During the Middle Ages, there were various systems involving elections or assemblies, although often only involving a small amount of the population, the election of Gopala in Bengal region of Indian Subcontinent, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 10 % of population ), the Althing in Iceland, the Løgting in the Faeroe Islands, certain medieval Italian city-states such as Venice, the tuatha system in early medieval Ireland, the Veche in Novgorod and Pskov Republics of medieval Russia, Scandinavian Things, The States in Tirol and Switzerland and the autonomous merchant city of Sakai in the 16th century in Japan.

George Robert Aberigh-Mackay ( July 25, 1848 – January 12, 1881 ), Anglo-Indian writer, son of a Bengal chaplain, was educated at Magdalen College School, Oxford and Cambridge University.

Outside the East Indies, the Dutch East India Company colonies or outposts were also established in Persia ( now Iran ), Bengal ( now Bangladesh and part of India ), Mauritius ( 1638-1658 / 1664-1710 ), Siam ( now Thailand ), Guangzhou ( Canton, China ), Taiwan ( 1624 – 1662 ), and southern India ( 1616 – 1795 ).

Aside from defeating the French during the Seven Years ' War, Robert Clive, the leader of the Company in India, defeated a key Indian ruler of Bengal at the decisive Battle of Plassey ( 1757 ), a victory that ushered in the beginning of a new period in Indian history, that of informal British rule.

Library associations in Asia include the Indian Library Association ( ILA ), Indian Association of Special Libraries and Information Centers ( IASLIC ), Bengal Library Association ( BLA ), Kolkata, Pakistan Library Association, the Pakistan Librarians Welfare Organization, the Bangladesh Association of Librarians, Information Scientists and Documentalists, the Library Association of Bangladesh and the Sri Lanka Library Association ( founded 1960 ).

* Saraswati River ( Bengal ), a distributary of the Hooghly River which was active till around the 16th century AD

Substantial communities of Sikhs, i. e., greater than 200, 000, live in the Indian States / Union territories of Haryana ( with more than 1. 1 million Sikh population ), Rajasthan, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Maharashtra, Uttaranchal, Madhya Pradesh Assam and Jammu and Kashmir.

Leigh was born Vivian Mary Hartley in the campus of St. Paul's School, Darjeeling, Bengal, India ( British India ), to Ernest Hartley, an English officer in the Indian Cavalry, and Gertrude Mary Robinson Yackjee ( 1888-1972 ), a devout Roman Catholic of Irish and Armenian descent, the daughter of Mary I. Robinson and John G. Yackjee, who wed in 1872.

Pitt's particular genius was to finance an army on the continent to drain French men and resources so that Britain might concentrate on what he held to be the vital spheres: Canada and the West Indies ; whilst Clive successfully defeated Siraj Ud Daulah, ( the last independent Nawab of Bengal ) at Plassey ( 1757 ), securing India.

The eastern wing formed the single province of East Bengal ( including the former Assam district of Sylhet ), which, despite having over half of the population, had a disproportionately small number of seats in the Constituent Assembly.

* Madanmohan-jiu Temple built at Samta ( India ), a village in the Howrah district of West Bengal.

Hindu scriptures such as the Mahabharata say that Bangladesh was divided among the Janapadas: Vanga ( southern Bengal ), Pundra ( northern Bengal ), and Suhma ( western Bengal ) according to their respective totems.

The city's world-renowned zoo was also home to a rare white Bengal Tiger.

Ancient Arabs also used election to choose their caliph, Uthman and Ali, in the early medieval Rashidun Caliphate ; and to select the Pala king Gopala in early medieval Bengal.

* 1857 – Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry mutinies against the East India Company's rule in India and inspires the protracted Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.

Other periods of cultural rebirth have also been termed " renaissances ", such as the Bengal Renaissance, al-Nahda or the Harlem Renaissance.

Rajiv Gandhi was in West Bengal when his mother, Indira Gandhi was assassinated on 31 October 1984 by two of her Sikh bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, to avenge the military attack on the Harmandir Sahib ( Sikhism's holiest shrine, also called " The Golden Temple ") during Operation Blue Star.

The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan also intended to construct his capitol at Agra as an urban center that would rival both Istanbul and Isfahan in all its wealth and cultural lifestyle. He even bestowed the title or surname " Chaudhury " to the family of Dutta Chaudhury, the very ancient Zamindar of Andul, which is situated in Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

The Arakan Yoma highlands in Myanmar and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal were also formed as a result of this collision.

Vanga Kingdom ( also known as Banga ) was a kingdom located in the eastern part of the Indian Subcontinent, comprising part of West Bengal, India and present-day modern Bangladesh.

But this burst of Bengali power did not last beyond his death, as Bengal descended afterwards into a period marked by disunity and foreign invasion. The development of the Bengali calendar is also often attributed to Shashanka as the starting date falls squarely within his reign ( 600 AD – 626 AD ).

Dutch factory of Hugly-Chinsurah in BengalVOC trading posts were also established in Persia, Bengal, Malacca, Siam, Canton, Formosa ( now Taiwan ), as well as the Malabar and Coromandel coasts in India.

The Desi ( meaning ' country ' or ' local ' in Hindi ) is also known as Bengal gram or kala chana.

Black cardamom, also known as hill cardamom, Bengal cardamom, greater cardamom, Indian cardamom, Nepal cardamom, winged cardamom, or brown cardamom, comes from either of two species in the family Zingiberaceae.

Bengalis, who also predominate in the Indian state of West Bengal, are one of the most populous ethnic groups in the world.

In 1930, while living with Dasgupta, Eliade fell in love with his host's daughter, Maitreyi Devi, later writing a barely disguised autobiographical novel Maitreyi ( also known as " La Nuit Bengali " or " Bengal Nights "), in which he claimed that he carried on a physical relationship with her.

Salty lassi is usually flavoured with ground, roasted cumin and red chilies ; this salty variation may also use buttermilk, and in India is interchangeably called ghol ( Bengal ), mattha ( North India ), majjiga ( Andhra Pradesh ), moru ( Tamil Nadu and Kerala ), Dahi paani ( Orissa ), tak ( Maharashtra ), or chaas ( Gujarat ).

The Shaheen is also reported from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal.

At the time British traders still operated by the whim of local rulers and Hastings and his colleagues were unsettled by the political turmoil of Bengal with the elderly moderate Nawab Alivardi Khan likely to be succeeded by his grandson Siraj ud-Daulah and several other rival claimants also eyeing the throne.

He also faced the severe Bengal Famine, with around ten million deaths.

Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, KB MP FRS ( 29 September 1725 – 22 November 1774 ), also known as Clive of India, was a British officer who established the military and political supremacy of the East India Company in Bengal.

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu ( also transliterated Caitanya, IAST ) ( 1486 – 1534 ) was a Vaishnava saint and social reformer in eastern India ( specifically present-day Bangladesh and states of West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Manipur, Assam, and Orissa of India ) in the 16th century, worshipped by followers of Gaudiya Vaishnavism as the full incarnation of Lord Krishna.

His son Rohan was also a cricketer who played for Bengal in the Ranji Trophy.

Megapodes are found in the broader Australasian region, including islands in the western Pacific, Australia, New Guinea, and the islands of Indonesia east of the Wallace Line, but also the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal.