Quotes About Bengal

Bengal in the early 1930s was a hotbed of anti-British revolutionary activity - and women were at the heart of this insurrectionist moment.

Bengal is a very important seat of cinema for me. I can't even think of giving it all up.

All of Bengal knows about my differences with my father. He's based in Mumbai. I never visit him. He never visits me. We are not enemies. But neither are we friends.

Hasta la hora del ocaso amarillo Cuántas veces habré mirado Al poderoso tigre de Bengala

My biggest pride is that Bollywood called me because of my work in Bengal.

People in Bengal know me because of my stint in 'Bigg Boss,' 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and the Bollywood flicks.

In 1947, additional factors contributed to the carnage. London's abrupt 20 February announcement that the British would very soon leave Punjab, Bengal and all of India was not accompanied by any plan of who would replace them in Lahore, Calcutta or Delhi.

By this momentous resolution the Congress had conceded Pakistan, while also insisting that east Punjab would stay out of it. (The implied demand that Bengal should be similarly divided was soon made explicit.) When the League asked for a division of India, the Congress had said no. Now, along with Punjab's Sikh and Hindu leaders, the Congress was demanding a division of Punjab.

nobody in India will love me for the award about the Punjab and Bengal and there will be roughly 80 million people with a grievance who will begin looking for me. I do not want them to find me . . .

Before long, Mir Jafar and the Jagat Seths had significantly raised their offer, and were now promising the participants Rs28 million, or £3 million sterling – the entire annual revenue of Bengal – for their help overthrowing Siraj, and a further Rs110,000 a month to pay for Company troops. In addition, the EIC was to get zamindari – landholding – rights near Calcutta, a mint in the town and confirmation of duty-free trade. By

Siraj's most serious error was to alienate the great bankers of Bengal, the Jagat Seths. The Seths' machinations had brought Aliverdi to power, and anyone who wanted to operate in the region did well to cultivate their favour; but Siraj did the opposite to the two men of the family

in 1770–71, at the height of the Bengal famine, an astounding £1,086,255 was transferred to London by Company executives – perhaps £100 million in modern currency.27

Mir Qasim Khan was very skilled in extracting information and in analysing written reports and accounts,' wrote the historian Mohammad Ali Khan Ansari of Panipat. 'He embarked immediately on the project of bringing the land of Bengal back into some sort of order.

Yet, like more recent mega-corporations, the EIC proved at once hugely powerful and oddly vulnerable to economic uncertainty. Only seven years after the granting of the Diwani, when the Company's share price had doubled overnight after it acquired the wealth of the treasury of Bengal, the East India bubble burst after plunder and famine in Bengal led to massive shortfalls in expected land revenues.

Aliverdi Khan, who was of mixed Arab and Afshar Turkman stock, had come to power in 1740 in a military coup financed and masterminded by the immensely powerful Jagat Seth bankers, who controlled the finances of Bengal. The Jagat Seths

Already, by the end of 1771, the mood was beginning to change in London. Word was spreading about the Company's inhumanity in Bengal: the number of dead and dying was simply too vast to hide. Horace Walpole's letters reflected a growing awareness that behind the EIC's vast profits there was something profoundly rotten at work in the Company's Indian operations. 'The groans of India have mounted to heaven

Bengal is poor not because of lack of capital but lack of ideas and vision.

the world's cheapest small car, Tata's Nano, worth only $1500. This toy-like ill-fated vehicle, whose destiny it was to look as if it had been prematurely brought into the world, more foetus than car, and whose birth was near abortive and then indefinitely delayed, this car, when it finally took to the road, turned out to have an engine that at times exploded mysteriously. Until 2009, it was seen to be Bengal's quirky but irreplaceable mascot for development.

Jyoti Basu is the biggest fraud, cheat, and con man in West Bengal.

The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal.

For the BJP, the conversion of Bengal's cultural Hindu into a political Hindu is a long-standing project.

I have always said some of the finest filmmakers in the country have come out of Bengal.

Bengal's indigenous art and craft is widely popular throughout the world.

There is tension all over the country. The party in Bengal has done substantial work. They have eliminated a few officers. The Englishmen are terrified. As a result, they have started sending their families to Britain. After some time, they will realise that they cannot exercise authority over India.