Padma division with Faridpur as headquarter soon

[bluesky]

Hint: Wealth and success brings you good looking spouse(s).

You mean beautiful spouse produces good looking sons and daughters. That is surely correct.

 

[Flynn Swagmire]

You mean beautiful spouse produces good looking sons and daughters. That is surely correct.

When it is continual for many generations surely it does...

 

[Banglar Bir]

It means xenophobia, which is not a good characteristic. Japanese have so many good traits, but they are xenophobic towards other nationalities. However, Sylheti mentality may be a little ghetto type that may have arisen out of their superiority (or inferiority?) complex of first large group of people going to London.

Sylhet was the nerve center of Greater Assam. Sylhetis have a different dialect and a scripture known as NAGRI, they are more affiliated to the Hilly Assamese region than the flat deltaic fertile plains of Bengal.Moreover Sylhet joined erstwhile East Pakistan through a Referendum, though a vast Muslim majority regions of Karimganj, Cachar, etc were not allowed to do so, Greater Sylhet was split up into various parts in 1947 by the British-Indian conspiracy.

First, the referendum in Sylhet. Sylhet, the proper Bangla name of which was Srihotto, lies along the foot of the Khasi and Jaintia hills of the present-day Indian state of Meghalaya, the North Cachar and Mikir Hills of Assam, and the hills of the Indian state of Tripura.

The rain-laden south-east monsoon winds get their first hit on these hills after cruising up from the Bay of Bengal over the low plains of present-day Bangladesh, and consequently it rains very heavily in these parts all the year round. All that water then runs down Sylhet district and out through the Meghna River, while in the process creating huge water bodies known as Haors – so huge that the boatmen crossing them have to navigate by the position of stars.
This feature had given Sylhet a seafaring tradition despite being far away from the sea, and it translated itself into an adventurousness not known among many Bengalis from other Bangla-speaking parts of the country.

The district, even at the time of partition, was a rich one in mineral and agricultural produce, with tea estates along the Tripura foothills and a cement plant at Chhatak, run with limestone and coal from the Khasi Hills. Later on abundant reserves of Natural Gas were discovered. The density of population was however, much more than that in the Brahmaputra valley.

Consequently, several things happened. First, unlike in other parts, Muslims in this district took to liberal education. Secondly, they emigrated in large numbers to different parts of the globe (today parts around Canary Wharf, especially Brick Lane, in the Docklands of London are inhabited entirely by Sylheti Muslims), in the process developing a catholicity of outlook which gave the district a much better tradition of Hindu-Muslim amity than other parts. Thirdly the Sylhetis, particularly the Hindus among them, managed to get a disproportionately large share in the state machinery of Assam.

The reason for this is very interesting. The province of Assam in the British days consisted of three parts – the Assamese-speaking Brahmaputra valley, the Bangla-speaking Surma valley (synonymous with Sylhet) and the hill districts. The people in the hills kept pretty much to themselves and seldom ventured out of the hills.

The Brahmaputra valley was relatively thinly populated as compared to Sylhet, and extremely rich in natural resources, such as a very fertile soil, abundant forest wealth, tea plantations and the only proven deposit of oil discovered upto the time of independence. The people therefore became quite affluent, and naturally rather less inclined towards Government Service.

In fact the state of the valley attracted settlers from elsewhere, mainly land-hungry Muslim agriculturists from East Bengal. This was further encouraged by a conscious policy of Islamisation of the valley followed during the rule of Premier Mohammed Saadullah. The bloody ethnic strife that plagued the valley in the nineteen-eighties was the result of this Islamisation half-a century ago. That, however, is a different story. Readers interested in this aspect of history of the subcontinent are referred to Sanjoy Hazarika's book, 'Rites of Passage'

It is this affluence of the Assamese from the Brahmaputra valley and the consequent disinclination towards Government Service that was responsible for the dominance of Sylhetis from the Surma valley in the Assam government during British rule. In India service in the government has always been equated with power, and there was no exception here. With their domination of the government the Sylhetis became powerful, and flaunted their superiority over the Assamese from the Brahmaputra valley. This was, naturally, not liked by the Assamese, nor by the Assam Congress which was dominated by Assamese-speaking leaders led by Gopinath Bardoloi, then the Premier and the first Chief Minister of the state after independence.

There never was any talk of partitioning Assam, it was declared in the Statement made by His Majesty’s Government on June 3, 1947 that a referendum would be held in the district to determine whether the people wished to go to Pakistan or to India.

http://bengalvoice.blogspot.com/2008/05/chapter-4-partitio-n-t-l-s-t-from-close.html

 

[BitHeroBD]

And why we would have any kind of inferiority complex? Maximum of us are wealthy, successful and good looking!!!

Agree to disagree LOL. I always hated the superior mentality of sylhetis. There are other wealthy areas in the country you know

 

[Flynn Swagmire]

Agree to disagree LOL. I always hated the superior mentality of sylhetis. There are other wealthy areas in the country you know

Well, I don't mind when people hates us.

And as I said earlier! We Sylhetis doesn't like to compare ourselve with others. Bangladesh got way more wealthy peoples then us but, we dont care at all!

 

[BitHeroBD]

Well, I don't mind when people hates us.

I don't hate the sylhetis, I just hate some of their attitude like they are superior than other bengalis

 

[Flynn Swagmire]

I don't hate the sylhetis, I just hate some of their attitude like they are superior than other bengalis

We are down to earth people. You dont show us your moody attitude, we won't either. But, when we do people thinks we got superiority complex.

Anyway, we are ok with it as always...