10-02-2006, 02:29 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-Ravish+Nov 28 2005, 12:13 AM-->QUOTE(Ravish @ Nov 28 2005, 12:13 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->The same is the case with the population of entire Northern India. It is nothing special of Bengal. You may find Bengal on the forefront for the simple reason that the British started their empire building efforts from Bengal. Therefore, the Bengali people were amongst the first to be educated in English and given employment by the East India Company. The Bengali people without understanding the consequences, lined up witht ehBiritish and provided immense help in the establishment of the British Rule in India. The Bengal Native Army of the East India Company , which made several expeditions right upto Kabul was mostly manned by the soldiers drawn from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. However, the logistic staff was provided by Bengal and so they came to be know as Babus.
In respect of intermixing of races, it is the same all over Northern India. Only in the South at some places there may be descendents of pure Indian origin.
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->> Who were the first modern Indians to conceptualise a free India. (Our beloved father of the nation, could not conceptualise a free india until the early 1930s....he would have gladly accepted dominion status)
1. Bankim Chandra
2. Swami Vivekananda
3. Aurobindo Ghosh
We all know what is common amongst them
Who were the first reformers who liberated Hinduism from the social evils which had crept in during the 1000 yrs of Islamic colonization? (Even Tilak, had opposed the age of concept bill) withouting actually denigrating the religion (as did Dayananda)
Who produced the greatest literary writers
Who produced the first nationalists?
Who produced the foremost scientists like J C Bose?
Who started the first schools for women? Do you know that calcutta university allowed admission to women at the time that oxford didnt?
In respect of intermixing of races, it is the same all over Northern India. Only in the South at some places there may be descendents of pure Indian origin.
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->> Who were the first modern Indians to conceptualise a free India. (Our beloved father of the nation, could not conceptualise a free india until the early 1930s....he would have gladly accepted dominion status)
1. Bankim Chandra
2. Swami Vivekananda
3. Aurobindo Ghosh
We all know what is common amongst them
Who were the first reformers who liberated Hinduism from the social evils which had crept in during the 1000 yrs of Islamic colonization? (Even Tilak, had opposed the age of concept bill) withouting actually denigrating the religion (as did Dayananda)
Who produced the greatest literary writers
Who produced the first nationalists?
Who produced the foremost scientists like J C Bose?
Who started the first schools for women? Do you know that calcutta university allowed admission to women at the time that oxford didnt?