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  2. Bengali name - Wikipedia

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    Bengali Hindu families use names of Sanskrit origin, followed by Bengali. They use many names which are listed below. Some of their names are somewhat shortened and altered, like Chatterjee, owing to British influence. Some family names may be common between all religions, such as চৌধুরী (Choudhuri / Chowdhury), সরকার ...

  3. Names of Bengal - Wikipedia

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    This is the native name of the state, literally meaning "West Bengal" in the Bengali language. In 2016, West Bengal Legislative Assembly passed a resolution to change the name of West Bengal to "Bangla" in English, Bangla in Bengali and Bangal in Hindi. In 2016, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had proposed a new name of the state as Bangla.

  4. Rai (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Rai (Hindi: राय; Urdu: رائے‎; Bengali: রায়; Nepali: राई) [1] is a surname in use since historical times on the Indian subcontinent ...

  5. Tanvir - Wikipedia

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    Tanvir (also spelled Tanbir, Tanveer, Tanweer, Tanver or Tanwir) (Arabic: تنوير, romanised: Tanweer; Pashto/Persian/Urdu: تنویر, romanised: Tanveer; Bengali: তানবীর, romanised: Tanbeer) is a unisex given name and surname, derived from Arabic تنوير meaning 'enlightenment', [1] also derived from Hindi and Punjabi languages in India meaning 'strong in body, brave from ...

  6. Sen (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Sen (Bengali: সেন) is a native Bengali Hindu surname derived from "Sena", the Sanskrit word for "army".. The surname is commonly found in the Bengal region of the Indian Subcontinent; namely Bangladesh & West Bengal, India mainly among Bengali Baidya and Kayastha [1] communities.

  7. Amit - Wikipedia

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    Amit is a Hindu and Jewish given name. [1]In Hindi, Amit (Hindi: अमित, means "infinite" or "boundless", Bengali: অমিত) originates from the Sanskrit word amita (अमित:), [2] amita (अमित:) essentially is the negation of mita (मित), which means "to measure".

  8. Bhattacharya (surname) - Wikipedia

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    A. Bhattacharya, Indian statistician who worked at the Indian Statistical Institute in the 1930s and early 40s; Abhi Bhattacharya (1921−1993), Indian actor of Hindi and Bengali cinema

  9. Bengalis - Wikipedia

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    Bengali literature denotes the body of writings in the Bengali language, which has developed over the course of roughly 13 centuries. The earliest extant work in Bengali literature can be found within the Charyapada , a collection of Buddhist mystic hymns dating back to the 10th and 11th centuries.