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East Bengali

British  

adjective

  1. of or relating to East Bengal (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of East Bengal

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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They even speak different languages: in the East, Bengali; in the West, Urdu.

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At week's end there were reports that East Bengali rebels were maintaining a precarious hold on Jessore and perhaps Chittagong.

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Last month he announced that he was prepared to fight for Bangla Desh, the East Bengali independence movement spawned by the Pakistani civil war.

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