Members of the Shanti Bahini and other rebel groups have committed similar violations, including the massacre of unarmed Bengali settlers.

Opposition parties of the time argued that the autonomy granted in the treaty ignored the Bengali settlers.

Population of Middle Andaman consists of Bengali, Tamil and Keralite settlers.

The island's current population consists of Bengali settlers.

* the 2012 Assam violence, between Bodo Hindus and Bengali Muslim settlers

Its military arm, the Shanti Bahini was used to fight government forces and Bengali settlers in the Hill Tracts.

There also is much tension between Bengali settlers and ethnic minorities, as well as between early Hindu settlers and recent Muslim settlers and between dominant tribes and lesser tribes.

Much of the trade in fruit, like most other commerce in the district, has been taken over by Bengali settlers.

Secondly, British soldiers fighting in that part of the world were relying on Bengali rice exports, and the government considered the feeding of soldiers to be more important than keeping Bengali civilians from starving to death.

Subsequently by mid-April 1971, the Bengali officers and soldiers of East Bengal Regiments formed the " Bangladesh Armed Forces " and M. A. G. Osmani assumed its command.

Armed preparations were going on by some leftist and nationalist groups, and the Bengali army officers and soldiers were prepared to defect.

After the declaration of independence, the Pakistani military sought to quell them, but increasing numbers of Bengali soldiers defected to the underground " Bangladesh army ".

There is no indication of how much food the military provided to Bengali soldiers and war workers.

The Bengali soldiers stationed at Jessore cantonment mutinied against the Pakistan Army on 29 March 1971.

Some Bengali soldiers were sent on leave, and some were disarmed on various pretexts whenever possible without raising alarm.

Captured Bengali soldiers, EPR and police personnel were either executed or imprisoned without trial.

1 Company of Bengali soldiers unloaded the MV Swat, all day and night, which would be finished by March 26 midday.

He immediately went to the EPR HQ and successfully took control of the facility by 10: 30, imprisoning about 300 Pakistani EPR members, then sent a prearranged signal to all Bengali EPR companies attached to the Chittagong EPR sector to imprison all Pakistani soldiers and come to the city.

Maj Zia had decided not to enter the city until his forces were all organized, so 1000 + Bengali soldiers remained at Kalurghat.

The Bengali soldiers in the city were in dire need of supplies and reinforcements.

Another column moving along the seashore was also ambushed, and some Pakistani soldiers lost their way and were killed by Bengali mobs.

EPR troops at Ramgarh split in two groups, one moved to join the Bengali soldiers near the Chittagong cantonment, while the others made for Shuvopur.

At night, nervous Bengali soldiers at Kalurghat radio station opened up twice at thin air, wasting much of their ammunition.

Nearly 1000 + Bengali soldiers and their families, including doctors posted at the CMH, were killed on the orders of Lt. Col. Malik by 30 March in Comilla.

Bengali soldiers then revolted, broke arms out of the kotes and began firing at the nearby Baluch barracks around 9: 00 AM.

Lt. Col Jalil refused to join his soldiers, and on his request the Pakistani soldiers and officers attached to 1 EBR was spared, while 50 Bengali soldiers surrendered to the Pakistanis and were shot as traitors.

Lt. Hafiz and Lt. Anwar took command of the Bengali troops and led the firefight until 4: 30 PM, when Bengali soldiers began an orderly retreat from the cantonment in small groups after losing nearly half the unit present strength and leaving their families behind.

Finally, a few languages, such as English and Afrikaans, have nearly completely lost grammatical gender ; while Bengali, Persian, Armenian, Assamese, Oriya, Khowar, and Kalasha have completely lost it.

Some of the older buildings, especially in the engineering faculty and the Aurobindo Bhavan in particular, have a strong Bengali influence which can be seen in the design of the pillars and even the wooden doors and windows.

The movement has culminated in several armed uprisings in both Pakistan and Iran, that have been crushed, especially during the 1970s inspired by Bengali nationalists.

Studies looking at the origin of the Sinhalese have been contradictory. Older studies suggest a predominantly Sri Lankan Tamil contribution followed by a significant Bengali contribution with no North Western Indian contribution, while more modern studies point towards a predominantly Bengali contribution and a minor Tamil and North Western Indian ( Gujarati & Punjabi ) contribution.

They have varying names in the languages of India: ananas ( अननस ) in Marathi, anaasa ( అన ా స ) in Telugu, Sapuri-PaNasa ( ସପ ୁ ର ି ପଣସ ) in Oriya language, annachi pazham ( Tamil ), anarosh ( Bengali ), and in Malayalam, kaitha chakka.

In Bengali, where the Common Fig is called dumur, it is referenced in a proverb: tumi jeno dumurer phool hoe gele (" You have become like the dumur flower ").

Spurgeon's works have been translated into many languages, including: Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Castilian ( for the Argentine Republic ), Chinese, Kongo, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, French, Gaelic, German, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kaffir, Karen, Lettish, Maori, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, and Welsh, with a few sermons in Moon's and Braille type for the blind.

Sandhi occurs particularly prominently in the phonology of Indian languages ( especially Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam language, Marathi, Bengali and most importantly Sanskrit, which have complex sandhi rules ), hence its name, but many other languages have it.

" " Bengali actress Swastika Mukherjee commented ," I am not very comfortable though I have tried wearing a lehenga choli with a stick-on in my navel.

Impalement is known to have been employed in several regions of southern Asia, such as in the Bengal region, where it was known as Shul ( Bengali: শ ূ ল ) and in ancient Tamilnadu, in present-day India, where it was referred to as Kazhuvetram.

Although, in recent days, Baul geeti has lost popularity mainly due to disruption of the lifestyle of the bauls by urbanisation and westernisation, the songs have permanently altered Bengali music, especially in the form of Lalon geeti.

Eastern IE languages, notably Bengali does have the / æ / sound for both the vowels ā আ ( hāñcco — the sneezing sound — pronounced as hæñcco ) and / e / এ ( henglā — greedy — pronounced as hængla ).

Many languages of India written in Brahmic scripts, such as Hindi ( apart from schwa and nasal vowels ) and Marathi ,, but not Bengali and Gujarati, have phonemic orthographies.

She has appeared in a number of foreign films, most of which have won international acclaim, including John Schlesinger ’ s Madame Sousatzka, Nicholas Klotz ’ s Bengali Night, Roland Joffe ’ s City of Joy, Channel 4 ’ s Immaculate Conception, Blake Edwards ' Son of the Pink Panther, and Ismail Merchant ’ s In Custody.

Most Indo-Aryan languages, such as Hindi and Bengali, have a two-way contrast between aspirated and plain.

Other regions, such as Tripura, and Barak Valley region of Assam also have large native Bengali populations and share this cuisine.

Other Bengali poets, such as Kazi Nazrul Islam, have also been influenced by Baul music and its message of non-sectarian devotion through love.

* Several filmmakers have produced adaptations of the novel, among them L ' idiot ( Georges Lampin ; 1946 ), a 1951 version by Akira Kurosawa, a 1958 version by Russian director Ivan Pyryev, the Bengali film Aparichito ( Salil Dutta ; 1969 ), and a 1992 Hindi version by Mani Kaul.

Eight Jnanpith awards each have been awarded in Hindi and Kannada, followed by five in Bengali, four in Malayalam, and three in Gujarati, Marathi and Urdu and 2 each in Assamese, Tamil and Telegu

BBC Asian Network broadcasts mainly in English, but also have programmes in five south Asian languages – Hindi / Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati and the Mirpuri dialect of the Potwari language.