The four day long ( Saptami to Dashami ) Durga Puja is the biggest annual festival in Bengal, Assam, Orissa, Bihar, Jharkhand and Nepal, where it is known as Dashain.

Aranyani bears resemblance to later day forest deities like Bonobibi in Bengal and Vana Durga.

In Bengal, Dussehra is celebrated as Durga Puja.

In Bihar, Bengal, Assam and Orissa, the goddess Kali, an appellation of Durga, is also worshipped as a symbol of Shakti ( Power ).

It is very similar to Durga Puja in its details and observance, and is especially popular in Bengal and some other parts of Eastern India.

The event is celebrated in various versions as Durga Puja in Bihar, Bengal and Orissa, Assam and as Dussehra and navaratri in other parts of India, celebrating this victory of good over evil.

Durga Puja is widely celebrated in the Indian states of Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa, Tripura and West Bengal, where it is a five-day annual holiday.

The prominence of Durga Puja increased gradually during the British Raj in Bengal.

In East Bengal ( Bangladesh ), Durga Puja used to be celebrated as Bhagabati Puja.

While the most recent revival of the Autumnal worship of Goddess Durga can be traced to revivalist tendencies in the early freedom movement in Bengal, differences remain in the historical reason behind the revival.

A considerable literature exists around Durga in the Bengali language and its early forms, including avnirnaya ( 11th century ), Durgabhaktitarangini by Vidyapati ( a famous Maithili poet of 14th century ), but the goddess Durga was not fully integrated into the Hindu pantheon, primarily in Bengal, in the 16th century.

It was during the 18th century, however, that the worship of Durga became popular among the landed aristrocacy of Bengal, the Zamindars.

The music, dancing, and art displayed and performed during the Durga puja played an integral part in connecting the community in Bengal, and eventually across India and the world today.

During the week of Durga Puja, in the entire state of West Bengal as well as in large enclaves of Bengalis everywhere, life comes to a complete standstill.

Since then, community pujas in Bengal came to be known as ‘ Baroyari – ‘ baro ’ meaning 12 and ‘ yar ’ meaning friends. In Kolkata, the first ‘ Baroyari ’ Durga Puja was organized in 1910 by the ‘ SanatanDharmotsahini Sabha ’ at Balaram Bosu Ghat Road, Bhawanipur.

The worship of Durga in the autumn ( Shôrot ) is the year's largest Hindu festival of Bengal.

This place is very famous for its Muharram and Durga Puja Celebration. it is also known as junction between Patori, Tajpur, Baruni, Samastipur, Patna, Bhagalpur, to Bengal, Jharkhand north east etc.

* Dasra ( Dasara ): Dasara or Durga Puja is celebrated among Hindu all over India, but it is very popular in Eastern part of India including West Bengal, Orissa, Assam etc.

A Very Famous & Known Socal Worker Late Shri Durga Dutt ji Jalan S / O Late Shri Rameshwar Lal ji Jalan has done lots of social work in the region to help the Poor's, needy persons, He was also active member of Local Governing Body for many years & also has political influence in the region & was associated with Indian National Congress Post Independence Time & his family member's are also known person in the town which is now based in Kolkata ( West Bengal ) & some of the family members are owner of Company's Like, Linc Pen & Plastics Ltd & Win Pens & etc

Kali Puja is light-up night for Mithila region in Bihar, West Bengal & Assam, corresponding to the festival of Diwali ( pronounced Dipaboli in Bengali ), ( in Maithili, it is known as Diya-Baati ) where people light diyas / candles in memory of the souls of departed ancestors.

Diwali coincides with the celebration of Kali Puja, popular in Bengal, and some Shakta traditions focus their worship on Devi as Kali rather than Lakshmi.

* Bhai Phota ( Bengali: ভ া ই ফ োঁ ট া) in Bengal and it takes place every year on the first or the second day of the Kali Puja festival.

File: Chhath Puja at Babughat in Kolkata. jpg | Celebrations on the banks of the Ganges in Kolkata, West Bengal

Though she is worshipped all over West Bengal and some places of Orissa, Jagaddhatri Puja in Chandannagar, Hoogly, Rishra, Tehatta, Krishnanagar, Nadia and Baripada, Orissa have a special socio-cultural celebration.

In Bengal it is popularly believed that Maharaja Krishna Chandra of Nadia started Jagaddhatri Puja.

* 1906 – the All India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India.

Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali JinnahNotwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence — notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight ( of which he was the main quoted source ) — his record is seen as very mixed ; one common view is that he hastened the independence process unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on the British watch, but thereby actually causing it to occur, especially in Punjab and Bengal.

On the south, India projects into and is bounded by the Indian Ocean – in particular, by the Arabian Sea on the southwest, the Laccadive Sea to the south, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast.

The Teen Bigha Corridor is a strip of land formerly belonging to India on the West Bengal – Bangladesh border which has been leased indefinitely to Bangladesh so that it can access its Dehgram – Angalpota enclaves.

* 1830 – The General Assembly's Institution, now the Scottish Church College, one of the pioneering institutions that ushered the Bengal Renaissance, is founded by Alexander Duff and Raja Ram Mohan Roy, in Calcutta, India.

The saint's left hand is allegedly preserved in the Armenian Apostolic Church of St. John at Chinsurah, West Bengal, where each year on " Chinsurah Day " in January it blesses the Armenians of Calcutta.

Jadavpur University (, ) or JU is a public state university located in Kolkata, West Bengal.

It is surrounded by many renowned educational institutes like The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Kolkata and Government college of Engineering and leather technology along with the Headquarters of the West Bengal Power Development Corporation Limited.

The governor of the state of West Bengal is its chancellor.

However, the daily administration is handled under the leadership of the vice chancellor, who is appointed by the governor on the recommendations of the government of West Bengal.

* Jadavpur University Music Club: It is one of the oldest clubs in the university and has produced some of the most versatile classical singers in Bengal.

Often called the ' game of rural Bengal ', it is now the National Game of Bangladesh.

* 1857 – The British East India Company disbands the 34th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry whose sepoy Mangal Pandey had earlier revolted against the British and is considered to be the First Martyr in the War of Indian Independence.

* Bengali New Year ( Pôhela Boishakh or Bangla Nôbobôrsho ) is celebrated on the 1st of Boishakh ( 14 – 15 April ) in Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal.

In 1712, Engelbert Kaempfer described addiction to madak: " No commodity throughout the Indies is retailed with greater profit by the Batavians than opium, which users cannot do without, nor can they come by it except it be brought by the ships of the Batavians from Bengal and Coromandel.

Aloo posto ( a curry with potatoes and poppy seeds ) is immensely popular in East India, especially Bengal.

According to the Mahāvamsa, a chronicle written in Pāli language, the ancient period of Sri Lanka begins in 543 BC with the landing of Vijaya, a semi-legendary king sailed 860 nautical miles on eight ships to Sri Lanka with 700 followers from the southwest coast of what is now the Rarh region of West Bengal.

It is positioned in the Indian Ocean, to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal, between latitudes 5 ° and 10 ° N, and longitudes 79 ° and 82 ° E.

Rainfall pattern of the country is influenced by Monsoon winds from the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal.

The rainfall pattern is influenced by the monsoon winds of the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal and is marked by four seasons.

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.