Jako
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Superiority cant be claimed by either of the Bengals. To each one has some kind of superiority.The area that is Bangladesh was part of the Delhi sultanate. That is the first time that it became part of a muslim sovereign entity. In subsequent periods the sultans of Bengal declared independence from Delhi. They fought the moghuls and subsequently became part of the moghul empire. The centre if power in Bengal shifted between different cities. Dhaka few years ago celebrated 400 years of being granted city status by the moghul empire. What is now Bengal was sparsely populated and over the years people moved in. However it is wrong to say WB in some fashion ruled the areas that is now Bangladesh. There would have been no such concept.
When the British developed the fishing village of kalikat which subsequently became Culcutta and the capital of British raj the significance of Murshidabad and Dhaka declined.
To claim some kind of superiority of WB over EB is downright silly. Viewing hundreds of years history through the prism of partition is inappropriate. If anyone is interested there is a seminal book on the history of Dhaka through the years of the British Raj that people should check out . Dhaka - A Study in urban History and Development 1840-1921 by Sharif Uddin Ahmed.
But you cant deny that even before the Mughals,West Bengal had been the core of power. From here only the Palas spread their wings. Gaud,Murshidabad and much later Calcutta always has been the more developed areas of Bengal. And they all lie in West Bengal.