Despite the Trinamool Congress government's efforts to forge a consensus, the Congress, the Left Front, and the Bharatiya Janata Party opposed the resolution and it awaits the consent of the Indian Parliament for approval. In 2016, West Bengal Legislative Assembly passed a resolution to change the name of West Bengal to Bengal in English, Bangla in Bengali and Bangal in Hindi. This is the native name of the state, literally meaning "West Bengal" in the Bengali language. In 2011, the Government of West Bengal proposed a change in the official name of the state to Paschimbongo ( Bengali: পশ্চিমবঙ্গ Pôshchimbônggô). West Bengal – The Partition of Bengal also created West Bengal, a predominantly Hindu province of India.Map of Bengal proper divided between the Bangladeshi Republic and the Indian state of West Bengal In 1971, East Pakistan declared Independence during the Liberation War of Bangladesh and the new nation of Bangladesh was formed. In 1955, East Bengal became the new province of East Pakistan. East Bengal (now Bangladesh), which was predominantly Muslim, became a province of Pakistan. East Bengal – The 1947 Partition of Bengal divided the British Indian province of Bengal as part of the formal Partition of India.Bengali Country) Bongobhumi or Banglabhumi (Bengali: বঙ্গভূমি/ বাংলাভূমি lit. Alternatives to the name Bangladesh are:īangadesh (Bengali: বঙ্গদেশ lit. Hence, the name Bangladesh means "Land of Bengal" or "Country of Bengal". The Indo-Aryan suffix Desh is derived from the Sanskrit word deśha, which means "land" or "country". The historian Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak mentions in his Ain-i-Akbari that the addition of the suffix "al" came from the fact that the ancient rajahs of the land raised mounds of earth 10 feet high and 20 in breadth in lowlands at the foot of the hills which were called "al". The word "Bangāl" and "Banglā" became the most common name for the region during the Islamic period. The ancient term Vangaladesa (Now used as ' Bangladesh') for the Bengal region (Modern day Bangladesh, West Bengal and Tripura) is found in 11th-century South Indian ( Dravidian) records. The origin of the term Bangla is the Iron Age Vanga Kingdom (Now divided between the Bangladesh and the West Bengal). The term Bangla is a major name for both the Bengal region ( Bangladesh and West Bengal) and the Bengali language. Starting in the 1950s, Bengali nationalists used the term in political rallies in East Bengal (In the year 1971 it became Bangladesh) province of Pakistan. The term Bangladesh was often written as two words, Bangla Desh, in the past.
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