Syama Prasad Mookerjee was an Indian politician and academician. Noted for his opposition to Quit India movement within the independence movement in India,he later served as India's first Minister for Industry and Supply in Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru's cabinet after breaking up with the Hindu Mahasabha. After falling out with Nehru,protesting against the Liaquat–Nehru Pact,Mukherjee resigned from Nehru's cabinet. With the help of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh,he founded the Bharatiya Jana Sangh,the predecessor to the Bharatiya Janata Party,in 1951.
Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee was a prolific Bengali educator,jurist,barrister and mathematician. He was the first student to be awarded a dual degree from Calcutta University. Perhaps the most emphatic figure of Indian education,he was a man of great personality,high self-respect,courage and towering administrative ability. The second Indian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta for four consecutive two-year terms (1906–1914) and a fifth two-year term (1921–23),Mukherjee was responsible for the foundation of the Bengal Technical Institute in 1906,which was later known as Jadavpur University and the University College of Science of the Calcutta University in 1914.
The All India Trinamool Congress is an Indian political party that is mainly influential in the state of West Bengal. It was founded by Mamata Banerjee on 1 January 1998 as a breakaway faction from the Indian National Congress and rapidly rose to prominence in the politics of West Bengal under her leadership. Presently,it is ruling the state of West Bengal beside being the third-largest party in India in terms of number of MPs just after the BJP and INC.
Calcutta Club is an elite gentlemen's club located on Lower Circular Road in Kolkata,India. It was established in 1907 and the first president of the club was the Maharajah of Cooch Behar,Sir Nripendra Narayan. The Prince of Wales,later King Edward VIII of Great Britain,was among the first royal guests to visit the club when he was invited to a lunch on 28 December 1921. First prime minister of India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru visited the club in 1961. The club has always maintained distinguished members from every community - from Maharaja of Coochbehar to Maharaja of Burdwan,Maharaja of Darbhanga,Nawab Sir KGM Faroqui of Ratanpur to Bhupendra Nath Bose,President of the Indian National Congress to Indian economist and philosopher Amartya Sen. Internationally acclaimed artists like Gaganendranath Tagore and Abanindranath Tagore were regular visitors to the club,as was Oscar award-winning legendary film-maker Satyajit Ray,longest-serving chief minister of West Bengal Jyoti Basu. In 2007,11th president of India Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam visited the club to launch the centenary scholarship fund. Other notable visitors to the club include prominent Indian artists and celebrities such as Amitabh Bachchan and Jaya Bhaduri. Today Calcutta Club stands as an iconic landmark in Kolkata and represents the elite Bengal with rich history and culture,and also referred as "The Grand Duke of all Clubs".
The Noakhali riots were a series of semi-organized massacres,rapes and abductions,combined with looting and arson of Hindu properties,perpetrated by the Muslim community in the districts of Noakhali in the Chittagong Division of Bengal in October–November 1946,a year before India's independence from British rule.
St. Lawrence High School is a private Catholic primary and secondary school for boys,located in Kolkata,West Bengal,India. The school was founded in 1810 and run by the Jesuits,initially in Baithakhana,Sealdah,as an elementary school which came to be known as St. John Chrysostom School. It was renamed in January 1937 by Fr. Lawrence Rodriques,S.J. as St. Lawrence High School. The school caters for approximately 1600 students.
Saugata Roy is an Indian politician of Trinamool Congress and also a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha of the Indian Parliament representing the Dum Dum constituency in the 16th Lok Sabha. He has also served as Union Minister of State for Urban Development in the Manmohan Singh government.
Hinduism is the largest religious tradition in the Indian state of West Bengal with approximately 70.54% of the population identifying themselves as Hindus. The Hindus in West Bengal mostly belong to the Shakta,minority to Vaishnavite and a small community belong to Shaivite and other denominations. The vast majority of Hindus in West Bengal are Bengali Hindus numbering around 55 million and comprising 60.2% of the state population of 91.35 million (2011) but a notable section of non-Bengali Hindus also exist,particularly among Marwaris,Biharis,Odias,Gurkhas,Sindhis,Gujaratis and various tribal communities such as Koch,Santals,Munda,Mech people and particularly Adivadis numbering around 9.4 million comprising rest 10.3% of the state population.
Bengali Hindus are an ethnoreligious population who make up the majority in the Indian states of West Bengal,Tripura,Andaman and Nicobar Islands,Jharkhand,and Assam's Barak Valley region. In Bangladesh,they form the largest minority. They are adherents of Hinduism and are native to the Bengal region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent. Comprising about one-third of the global Bengali population,they are the second-largest ethnic group among Hindus after Hindustani Hindus. Bengali Hindus speak Bengali,which belongs to the Indo-Aryan language family and adhere to Shaktism or Vaishnavism of their native religion Hinduism with some regional deities. There are significant numbers of Bengali-speaking Hindus in different Indian states. According to the census in 1881,12.81 per cent of Bengali Hindus belonged to the three upper castes while the rest belonged to the Shudra and Dalit castes.
The Saradha Group financial scandal was a major political scandal caused by the collapse of a Ponzi scheme run by Saradha Group,a consortium of over 200 private companies that was believed to be running collective investment schemes popularly but incorrectly referred to as chit funds in Eastern India.
The partial list of political families of West Bengal state of India.
Nagendra Prasad Sarbadhikary was an Indian educationist,sports administrator and football pioneer. He is widely regarded as the "Father of Indian Football" for his role in founding the first Indian football organisations after introducing the sport to his classmates at Hare School.
The Narada sting operation was a sting operation carried out by Mathew Samuel targeting high-ranking officials and politicians of the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC). It showed several politicians and a high-ranked police officer accepting cash bribes in exchange for providing unofficial favors to a company.
The Department of Law,University of Calcutta,Kolkata,West Bengal,formerly University College of Law,is a faculty in the University of Calcutta,founded in 1909,colloquially referred to as Hazra Law College,which offers undergraduate,postgraduate,doctorate and post doctorate courses. The Faculty oversees fifteen affiliated Law schools of the University.
Sir Manmatha Nath Mukherjee was a Bengali judge of the Calcutta High Court and a distinguished jurist. He was also the Law Member of the Viceroy's Executive Council and awarded Knighthood in 1935. Manmatha Nath was the son-in-law of Bengali scholar Sir Gooroodas Banerjee.
Dr. B. C. Roy Institute of Medical Sciences &Research is a medical school and research institute at Balarampur,outside IIT Kharagpur campus,Paschim Medinipur district,West Bengal,India. It will start with a 400-bed multi-speciality hospital with specialities like Cardiac,Neurosurgery,Organ Transplantation,Oncology,Trauma and others. Beside this,it will be equipped with state-of-the art research facilities like Telemedicine,Tissue engineering,Bioelectronics etc. and expand to 750 bed capacity later. It is proposed to start with 50 undergraduate medical seats. The institute is supposed to be functional by end of 2018. The various research,academic and medical infrastructure planning is being jointly carried out by IIT Kharagpur and All India Institute of Medical Sciences,Delhi.
The University College of Science,Technology and Agriculture are two of five main campuses of the University of Calcutta (CU). The college served as the cradle of Indian sciences by winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930 and many fellowships of the Royal Society London.
Tapan Ghosh was a Hindu nationalist leader from West Bengal,India and founder of Hindu Samhati. He started his career as a member of RSS,later he formed his own organization Hindu Samhati.
Anti-Bengali sentiment comprises negative attitudes and views on Bengalis. This sentiment is present in several parts of India:Gujarat,Bihar,Assam,and various tribal areas. etc. Issues include discrimiation in inhabitation,other forms of discrimination,political reasons,government actions,anti-Bangladeshi sentiment,etc. The discriminative condition of Bengalis can be traced from Khoirabari massacre,Nellie massacre,Silapathar massacre,North Kamrup massacre,Goreswar massacre,Bongal Kheda,etc. This has led to emergence of Bengali sub-nationalism in India as a form of protest and formation of many pro-Bengali organisations in India.
