Should ' West" be dropped from West Bengal ?

[indianBong]

Well i will prefer "bangla" too... west bengal has turned into waste bengal now.....!!

 

[Omega007]

No

West signifies the Real Bengali legacy whether its religion or culture and whatever Bengali legends (mostly) be it nationalist like Netaji or Men of letters like Tagore were from Bengal.

I am happy for the partition for dividing West Bengalis from their By products and Mallecha (unknown origin) Rohingyas.

While I agree to your most of your views,I do not support keeping the West words attached,because there is no other other Bengal other than this one.The eastern bad land is and was never known as East Bengal,so why bother using the term West Bengal??There is no East Bengal on the east??!!

I'm all for an union with @nForce & co, as long as we can keep @Omega007 types out of it. ;p

Yeah right,as if that gonna happen.Keep yourself into your shithole you bloody kata and do not pole vault.

 

[indianBong]

West Bengal may be still consider us East Bengal and seeking some relation on that basis.
For keeping their West Bengal name someday we may come and take over that , as we still consider that our integral part

We have everything to deal with Bengal. And standing Army in the name of Bengal We also kept open the option for you naming our one regiment as East Bengal Regiment

 

[ArsalanKhan21]

What about East Punjab ? or Uttar Pradesh meaning Western Province ?

 

[nForce]

I support Bangla as the new name for West Bengal. It sends a positive message.

Regarding Bangladesh, and West Bengal equation, let it hang for now.
But United Bengal is an inevitability. It is going to happen when the time is right and when people in both sides of the border are sane enough to understand its benefits and perceive the bigger picture.

It does not even have to be dissolution of the borders in case some people are apprehensive about it. But we can most certainly have a greater degree of economic cooperation and social interaction.

What about East Punjab ? or Uttar Pradesh meaning Western Province ?

Punjab will take another 100 years

Uttar Pradesh means the Northern province.

 

[Maira La]

But United Bengal is an inevitability. It is going to happen when the time is right and when people in both sides of the border are sane enough to understand its benefits and perceive the bigger picture.

My thoughts exactly. I was just going to post this. I believe "when the time is right" would be a time when both WB and BD are more economically prosperous and no longer 3rd world economies.

It doesn't have to be a political union either. However the language and culture will bring us closer for sure.

Though, as of July 21, 2014, some of the people who hate us the most happen to be from a certain place called WB, sadly.

 

[Jamwal's]

While I agree to your most of your views,I do not support keeping the West words attached,because there is no other other Bengal other than this one.The eastern bad land is and was never known as East Bengal,so why bother using the term West Bengal??There is no East Bengal on the east??!!


Yeah right,as if that gonna happen.Keep yourself into your shithole you bloody kata and do not pole vault.

True,my opinion on retaining "west" is in context of some fools try to associate with Bengali legacy/history ... Remember they used to call East Bengal before 1971 while they have nothing indigenous to their land.

They were mostly tribal Animist for most of their history with no culture,religion and heroes what ever good they have is from West Bengal.

While I agree to your most of your views,I do not support keeping the West words attached,because there is no other other Bengal other than this one.The eastern bad land is and was never known as East Bengal,so why bother using the term West Bengal??There is no East Bengal on the east??!!


Yeah right,as if that gonna happen.Keep yourself into your shithole you bloody kata and do not pole vault.

True,my opinion on retaining "west" is in context of some fools try to associate with Bengali legacy/history ... Remember they used to call East Bengal before 1971 while they have nothing indigenous to their land.

They were mostly tribal Animist for most of their history with no culture,religion and heroes what ever good they have is from West Bengal.

 

[nForce]

My thoughts exactly. I was just going to post this. I believe "when the time is right" would be a time when both WB and BD are more economically prosperous and no longer 3rd world economies.

It doesn't have to be a political union either. However the language and culture will bring us closer for sure.

Though, as of July 21, 2014, some of the people who hate us the most happen to be from a certain place called WB, sadly.

They hate you and you hate them back. Well that just makes you one of them, isn't it ?
I wanted to tell that to you earlier.
I sincerely believe there will be better times.

True,my opinion on retaining "west" is in context of some fools try to associate with Bengali legacy/history ... Remember they used to call East Bengal before 1971 while they have nothing indigenous to their land.

Not East Bengal even. They used to call it East Pakistan.

 

[Maira La]

They hate you and you hate them back. Well that just makes you one of them, isn't it ?

I hate who? I hate no one. I couldn't even if I tried, it's just not in my personality.

 

[Omega007]

True,my opinion on retaining "west" is in context of some fools try to associate with Bengali legacy/history ... Remember they used to call East Bengal before 1971 while they have nothing indigenous to their land.

They were mostly tribal Animist for most of their history with no culture,religion and heroes what ever good they have is from West Bengal.

No,that would be East Pakistan.The land on our east at no point of time,was known as East Bengal.

 

[scorpionx]

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Do spread this..

I can not comment on whether it should be renamed to something else for being not sure about its further benefits or value on social lives here but I can imagine why there had not been any decisive effort by the government to reject the 'West'. Before the advent of the British, a composite Bengali culture was already established in some forms, keeping language in the center right from the beginning of the Turkish conquest. Communal riots between Hindus and Muslims were not so frequent as it became a regular affair after the British tampered heavily with the rural economy based upon strictly religious lines. But despite all their 'divide and rule' policy and the invasion of radical Wahabism in the 19th century, Bengal successfully managed to keep its distinct political and cultural fabric intact.

If you carefully follow the course of freedom movement in present Bangladesh and West Bengal, it is not hard to notice that Bengali Muslims carefully distanced themselves from both Gandhi and Jinnah. Until the ill planned quit India movement, Krishak Praja Party and its leader Fazlul Haque enjoyed unparalleled support and devotion from both Hindus and Muslims in rural Bengal. Though the religious slogan Vande Mataram was not received with warm heart even by the moderate Muslims, Tagore continued to be the supreme authority when it came to cultural world of an educated Bengali Muslim. Even at the peak of Wahabi movement in Bengal, Urdu was summarily rejected by its Bengali followers; such was the devotion of Hindu and Muslims as well to this composite culture where language was given unrivaled importance.

Such devotion and passion to that culture, among Hindus in WB and Muslims in Bangladesh still exists today. Bangladeshis feel no less proud when Amartya Sen was awarded with Nobel Prize, same was the case in WB when Md.Yunus received the same. The Bangladeshis felt equally disappointed and angry when Ganguly was unreasonably thrown out of the Indian team, just like his Indian fans especially Bengalis. The first day of Bengali calendar, it will not be wrong to say that is celebrated with much more splendor in Bangladesh than West Bengal.

These are the main reason in my opinion, why a part of Bengalis in WB still want to see themselves as a part of greater culture and has not shown much enthusiasm to discard the 'West' till today. Surprisingly, very recently when Mamata Bannerjee was thinking of changing the name of the state, one suggestion drew very much popularity and that was Paschim Banga, a mere translation of West Bengal into Bengali.

 

[livingdead]

change it to bangla pradesh

 

[genmirajborgza786]

Personally I am against renaming states / Cities/ Towns but while reading a report on WB it occurred to me that calling the state ' West" Bengal is superfluous.

There is no ' East' Bengal anymore. At least the only East Bengal I know is a famed football club whom I was a great follower of - besides Mohammedan Sporting.

Why shouldn't " West" be dropped and the province be called Bengal ?

This may rankle people from BD as they consider themselves the custodians for Bengal .

May I have your views please ?

@nair @Nair saab @bongbang @Abingdonboy @Bang Galore @genmirajborgza786 @WAJsal @SpArK @levina @asad71

yes i agree with you , & honestly speaking this bangal vs gothi thing should end now , historically there was only one bengal , punjab ,tamil nadu etc ,the east/west nonsense only set in from 1906 on words & coming from an urdu-speaking business family of Calcutta , we Muslims actually gained to loose the most from that partition & the one that followed afterwords in the late 1940's , the leverage the Muslims had in the commercial industries of Calcutta greatly diminished after that stint , so IMO the division of Bengal was the most damaging idea as far as Muslims were concerned , at least from an industrial & commercial point of view , the problem was agricultural to be specific the zamindari system in which the Hindus had the upper hand & the Muslims of Bengal felt alienated , so the solution should also have been Land Reforms of Bengal & not the Partition of Bengal , its common sense & i think had the land reforms been implemented back then , the subcontinent would have been a much better place , no offense mate but , this whole bloody problem originated from Bengal (both the sides) & slowly slowly engulfed the entire subcontinent with it , in retrospect as an Urdu speaker i have nothing but only distaste of that event

mate once again if my post in anyway have hurt the sentiment of our Bengali Friend here , from India & BD please accept my apologies

Regards

 

[livingdead]

I hate who? I hate no one. I couldn't even if I tried, it's just not in my personality.

marry me meera

 

[Maira La]

marry me meera

Sure, but first do a reverse ghar wapsi.