Bengal

When Dr. Roylott was in India he married my mother, Mrs. Stoner, the young widow of Major-General Stoner, of the Bengal Artillery.

At Western Marine’s shipyard on the edge of the Bay of Bengal, machines shriek and sparks fly as workers turn hulking pieces of metal into gigantic ships.

Durga puja is celebrated mostly in the Indian states of West Bengal, Bihar, Assam, Odisha and Tripura.

One of the biggest similarities between Bangladesh and West Bengal is the language that is spoken.

The Bengal delta has been ruled by Hindu rulers, Muslim rulers, and the British empire.

The national animal of Bangladesh is the Royal Bengal Tiger.

The mangrove swamps of the Sundarbans in Bangladesh are home to the endangered Bengal tiger.

The road which was made under the superintendence of Captain (afterwards Colonel) Guthrie, of the Bengal Engineers between 1837 and 1844, at the joint expense of the British and Manipuri Governments, the former paying the larger share, was excellent for foot passengers and pack animals, but not wide enough and too steep for wheeled traffic on a large scale.

Gabriel was rescued in the Gulf of Bengal.

Most of them survived when the tsunami hit the remote islands in the Bay of Bengal on December 26. But the land on which they live suffered severely and many anthropologists believe that the damage to their habitat has left the tribes facing new challenges.