East Bengal
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Born to a Muslim family in East Bengal in 1947, Ms Hasina had politics in her blood.
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2024
He shared a special bond with my German grandmother who had sailed with a trunk full of china to marry the engineering student from East Bengal she had met in Berlin.
From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2017
He was withdrawn as referee only hours before an AFC match between Singapore's Tampines Rovers and India's East Bengal on April 3.
From Reuters • Aug. 29, 2013
Replacement referees took charge of the game, in which India's East Bengal defeated Singapore's Tampines Rovers, 4-2.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2013
In Jagu’s and Rajesh’s case, my grandmother believed, the upheaval and uprooting from East Bengal to Calcutta had unmoored their minds, although in spectacularly opposite ways.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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