West Bengal | state, first-level administrative division

India / Bangla / Srirampur /
 state, invisible, first-level administrative division
An important state in eastern India, West Bengal, the 13th largest state in India, streches from the foothills of Himalayas in the north to 600 kms. south to the Bay of Bengal. Mahamati Gopal Krishna Gokhale once said "What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow". Bengal , can perhaps be justifiably proud of producing men and women whose ideas helped to shape modern India. Ram Mohan Roy, Ishwar Candra Vidyasagar, Ramkrishnadev and Vivekananda led social and religious movements. Rishi Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Madhusudan Dutta, Rabindranath Tagore among others ushered in an era of new literature. A movement to evolve a true 'Indian Art form' found its expression in Gaganendranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Jamini Roy and others. New Wave cinema came into the country with the renowned filmmakers Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen and ors. In this State, India's Freedom Movement found some of the great sons like Sir Surendranath Banerjee, Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and many others as it drew inspiration from Rishi Aurobindo. Bengal, indeed, a proud land of no less than 5 Nobel Laureates ( Ross, Tagore ,Raman, Mother Teresa and Amartya Sen) is also known for its sweet and rich language, appreciative audiences, connoisseurs of art and culture and for a highly cultured people.
Capital:Kolkata( formerly Calcutta)
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Bengal
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Coordinates:   24°23'51"N   87°48'49"E

Comments

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  • The vivid and explicit description of this tag, as we are aware of, is credited to a very distinguished user from the region 'Boogiram', who made us all proud with his sizable and notable voluntary contributions to wikimapia.
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