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@Anoushirvan @Sam Manekshaw Indians should be called East Indians. maybe West Indies and India should consider themselves separated gold

what has insecurities? do you actually have anything to add to the discussion?

it is up to individuals to decide what they want to do. people should at least be aware of the importance of Urdu in the land we call Bangladesh. all of those pre-1947 leaders from Bengal who can be likened to "founding fathers" associated themselves with Urdu at least as much as Bengali. and a...

informative list Tajikistan looks effed up. any Tajikistani here?

i would suggest you to update your knowledge about the country you are a national of. it shouldn't be okay for anyone to say that a language used by a significant community in Bangladesh is "not coming back". it might not have official patronage from BD government. but it is a language of the...

more correctly you should call Muslim wannabe

if Bengali nationalism is concerned with pride in the heritage of Bengal, then the languages that have enriched and shaped this region and its people must be celebrated. in that case, you cannot simply exclude only certain languages of the region just because they were brought there by Muslims...

Yes simple and definitely a beneficial thing. i like Noori by the way

i would say that is a good point. i am familiar with multiple dialects but having had better orientation on the fourth. what almost all these dialects still have in common is each has a greater extent of Arabic and Islamicate influence compared to the Calcutta/formal Bengali

Farsi-Urdu-Arabic are still separate living languages of modern times. and we know what they constitute and what they are. and when we look at how a combination of them is used by Muslims of Bengal, or even by some non-Muslims of places of Bengal where there was high Muslim influence, IN their...

you are very ignorant. Bengali used by Muslims includes a lot of Farsi, even after adopting so much of the Calcutta Tagore traditions. and Farsi was practised by Muslims in the region for a long time as more of a formal language in general, besides as a native language by some

this Eaton work for a large part revolves around the eastward moving empires into Bengal. i don't see how you are denying this theme all over this Eaton work and this obvious trend that did take place. i hope you also noticed some parts in this Eaton work talking about uncomfortable experiences...

it's inconvenient for you now and that is understandable, but give it some time. i don't think any of the Bangladeshis here asserted that only en masse migration resulted in the Bengal Muslim population. they only asserted it is one of the major factors in response to a total denial of that by...

bengali was the language of the majority. but this Bengali means many accents and dialects and heavy Arbi-Farsi use. the ensuing Sanskritization of Bangla during colonial period even caused this Musalman Bangla to be considered as a dialect of Urdu, rather than a dialect of Bangla. and whether a...

that is a ridiculous attitude from you. what exists is not a myth. one of my late grandparents educated in British era had written a book in Urdu. my parents speak thorough Urdu and have some rusty writing skills. my proficiency is about intermediate. and there are many Urdu-speaking Bengalis...

any large scale genetic study have not yet been carried out to answer you. what has been carried out are individual DNA assessments. there has been individuals who are Bengali Bangladeshi Muslims who found out lineage from places like Iran-Iraq via Northern India. and besides such lineage is...

the Muslim community as whole in South Asia is as much a racial community as it is a religious community. religion/faith is not the only thing that separates the Muslims from the non-Muslims of South Asia. the converts and the settlers (who converted at another place) have mixed up in the...

lol what is the measurable effect of open defecation on Indian crop production? could this be a UN ploy to bring down India's agro production?? :angry:

so if i am reading some Indians here correctly, does N. Modi want to send all Indian open-defecators to Bangladesh.. by terming them "illegal Bangladeshis"? is this how they want to solve their open defecation epidemic? how outrageous. this will be dangerous for BD

ma and masih i.e. messiah? so you are saying the Muslims who settled here or converted to form the Muslim civilization SHOULDN'T have used their own names (which technically were still pre-Islamic whether they came from Arabia or Central Asia)? like when Dutch settlers used New Amsterdam for...