State of West Bengal

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State of West Bengal
Capital: Kolkata
State symbols Emblem: Emblem of West Bengal • Animal: Fishing cat • Bird: White-throated kingfisher • Flower: Night-flowering jasmine (Shiuli) • Tree: Devil's tree (Saptaparni) • Fish: Ilish
History Gauda Kingdom • Shashanka • Pala Empire • Sena dynasty • Mallabhum • Cooch Behar State • Sher Shah Suri • Mughal Empire • Nawabs of Bengal and Murshidabad • East India Company • Battle of Plassey • Bengal Presidency • Great Bengal famine of 1770 • Indian Rebellion of 1857 • Bengali Renaissance • Bardhaman Raj • Nadia Raj • Jhargram Raj • Sovabazar Raj • Panchkot Raj • Partition of Bengal (1905) • Revolutionary movement for Indian independence • Anushilan Samiti • Jugantar • Bengal famine of 1943 • Direct Action Day • Noakhali riots • Partition of Bengal (1947) • Bangladesh Liberation War • Naxalite movement
Geography Darjeeling Himalayan hill region • Terai • North Bengal plains • Dooars • Rarh region • Sundarbans • Western plateau and high lands • Ganges Delta • Climate • Sandakphu (Highest point) • Protected areas of West Bengal • Rivers of West Bengal • Ganga • Damodar River • Brahmaputra • Teesta • Hooghly River • Khoai • Tiger Hill, Darjeeling • Siliguri Corridor
Governance Chief Ministers • Governor • Legislative Assembly • Human Rights Commission • Political parties (All India Trinamool Congress • Communist Party (Marxist) • Indian National Congress • Bharatiya Janata Party) • Parliamentary constituencies • Assembly constituencies • CID West Bengal • Kolkata Police
Rights groups Matua Mahasangha • Bangla Pokkho
Division and
Districts
Burdwan division Birbhum • Hooghly • Paschim Bardhaman • Purba Bardhaman
Jalpaiguri division Alipurduar • Cooch Behar • Darjeeling • Jalpaiguri • Kalimpong
Malda division Dakshin Dinajpur • Malda • Murshidabad • Uttar Dinajpur
Medinipur division Bankura • Jhargram • Paschim Medinipur • Purba Medinipur • Purulia
Presidency division Howrah • Kolkata • Nadia • North 24 Parganas • South 24 Parganas
Cities and
towns
Alipore • Asansol • Berhampore • Balurghat • Bankura • Barasat • Bardhaman • Bishnupur • Hugli-Chuchura • Cooch Behar • Darjeeling • Durgapur • Haldia • Howrah • Jalpaiguri • Jaynagar Majilpur • Kalimpong • Kharagpur • Kolkata • Krishnanagar • Kurseong • Malda • Midnapore • Murshidabad • Purulia • Raiganj • Siliguri • Siuri • Tamluk • List of cities in West Bengal by population • Cities and towns by district
Culture Bengali Renaissance • Bengali calendars • Patachitra • Chalchitra • Arts of West Bengal • Baul • Bhadu • Gombhira • Chhau dance • Cuisine • Rabindra Sangeet • Rabindra Nritya Natya • Holi • Dol Purnima • Prostitution in Kolkata • Pahela Baishakh • Durga Puja • Bhai Phonta • Raksha Bandhan • Ratha Yatra • Architecture of Bengal • Bengal temples • Bengali language • Bengali literature • Feluda • Lalmohan Ganguly • Professor Shonku • Tarini Khuro • Kakababu • Kiriti Roy • Pather Panchali (novel) • Tollywood (Bengali cinema) • Jatra • Ghosts in Bengali culture
GI product Baluchari sari • Banglar Rosogolla • Bankura horse • Bengal Patachitra • Chhau mask • Darjeeling tea • Dhaniakhali Sari • Dhokra • Fazli (mango) • Gobindobhog • Himsagar • Jaynagarer Moa • Madurkathi • Manasa chali • Mihidana • Nakshi kantha • Sonagachi • Santiniketan Leather Goods • Sitabhog • Tulaipanji
Demographics Bengali people • Bihari people • Economy of West Bengal • Gurkha • Adivasi • Rajbanshi • Anglo-Indian • Ethnic communities in Kolkata • List of West Bengal districts ranked by literacy rate • Anti-Bengali sentiment in India
People Rabindranath Tagore • Satyajit Ray • Kazi Nazrul Islam • Anil Kumar Gain • Ritwik Ghatak • Subhas Chandra Bose • Jamini Roy • Nandalal Bose • Jagadish Chandra Bose • Meghnad Saha • Bankim Chandra Chatterjee • Sarat Chandra Bose • Jnanadanandini Devi • Abanindranath Tagore • Satyendranath Tagore • Satyendranath Dutta • Ram Mohan Roy • Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar • Rani Rashmoni • Ramakrishna Paramahamsa • Swami Vivekananda • Sarada Devi • Dwarkanath Tagore • Sukumar Ray • Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury • Lokenath Brahmachari • Michael Madhusudan Dutta • Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay • Sister Nivedita • Mother Teresa • Amartya Sen • Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay • Nihar Ranjan Gupta
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