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==Etymology== | ==Etymology== | ||
The origin of the name Bengal (Bangla and Bongo in Bengali) is unknown. One theory suggests the word derives from "Bang", the name of a Dravidian tribe that settled the region around 1000 BCE.<ref>http://countrystudies.us/bangladesh/4.htm</ref>The Bengali word Bongo might have been derived from the ancient kingdom of Vanga (or Banga). Although some early [[Sanskrit]] literature mentions the name Vanga, the region's early history is obscure.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20171204062800if_/https://books.google.com/books?id=845eAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false</ref> | The origin of the name Bengal (Bangla and Bongo in Bengali) is unknown. One theory suggests the word derives from "Bang", the name of a Dravidian tribe that settled the region around 1000 BCE.<ref>http://countrystudies.us/bangladesh/4.htm</ref>The Bengali word Bongo might have been derived from the ancient kingdom of Vanga (or Banga). Although some early [[Sanskrit]] literature mentions the name Vanga, the region's early history is obscure.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20171204062800if_/https://books.google.com/books?id=845eAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false</ref> | ||
In 1947, at the end of British rule over the Indian subcontinent the Bengal Legislative Council and the Bengal Legislative Assembly voted on the Partition of Bengal along religious lines into two separate entities: West Bengal, which continued as an Indian state and East Bengal, a province of Pakistan, which came to be known be as East Pakistan and later became the independent Bangladesh.<ref>https://books.google.co.in/books?id=in1_AgAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y</ref> | |||
==History== | ==History== | ||