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  • Though, it was the Liberation War of the nation, Bangladesh, which had ignited a flow of mass migration of the populaces from the East Bengal, that is, East Pakistan (of the pre-independent era), but, the Government of India has totally failed to arrest the situation.

    NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories 2009

  • Asia, local tournaments featuring teams such as East Bengal, Mohun Bagan and the Karachi

    The Hindu - Front Page 2010

  • Asia, local tournaments featuring teams such as East Bengal, Mohun Bagan and the Karachi

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • My mother was an exile from Germany, my father from East Bengal.

    Voice of the East, Heard From the West Vibhuti Patel 2011

  • India is a potential source of revenue for Premier League clubs which has so far remained untapped; the nation has the largest emerging middle class in the world, and football, whilst increasingly popular last month 120,000 spectators watched Mohan Bagan face East Bengal in a local grudge match, suffers from crippling under-investment.

    Matthew Handley: Are Blackburn Rovers' Owners Headless Chickens? Matthew Handley 2011

  • Telling the Muslims who had been responsible for the massacres of thousands of Hindus in East Bengal in 1946 that Islam "was a religion of peace," Gandhi nonetheless said to three of his workers who preceded him into its villages: "There will be no tears but only joy if tomorrow I get the news that all three of you were killed."

    Among the Hagiographers Andrew Roberts 2011

  • India is a potential source of revenue for Premier League clubs which has so far remained untapped; the nation has the largest emerging middle class in the world, and football, whilst increasingly popular last month 120,000 spectators watched Mohan Bagan face East Bengal in a local grudge match, suffers from crippling under-investment.

    Matthew Handley: Are Blackburn Rovers' Owners Headless Chickens? Matthew Handley 2011

  • During the 1971 India-Pakistan war and the East Bengal uprisings before that, Islamabad thought that the U.S. should have steadfastly stood by it, as is expected of a treaty ally.

    The U.S. and Pakistan, Best of Frenemies Sumit Ganguly 2011

  • This inhuman antagonism could not exist in East Bengal, where, owing to the number of the Muslims and also to the fact that they were Bengali-speaking, the economic and social life of the two communities was interwoven.

    Lapham's Quarterly: Why They Hate Them 2009

  • Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 43.1% male: 53.9% female: 31.8% (2003 est.) GovernmentCountry name: conventional long form: People's Republic of Bangladesh conventional short form: Bangladesh local long form: Gana Prajatantri Banladesh local short form: Banladesh former: East Bengal, East Pakistan

    Bangladesh 2008

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