11-28-2005, 09:28 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-green_trees+Nov 27 2005, 11:53 PM-->QUOTE(green_trees @ Nov 27 2005, 11:53 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->I find Bengal as the true melting pot of all the races, invaders and the aborigins of India. You could trace back the genes of a persi to a kaala in a bengali's blood. I wonder if thats why nobody took the painstaking effort to write a history on it.
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read R.C.Mojumdar's "history of bengal".
reading the links in the o.p would tell you something about bengal as it was 2500 years ago.
i always knew that peninsular states and even kalinga/orissa had trade relations with the rest of the world. until i learnt that roman coins and other influences have found in the terracota hotbed of Chandraketugarh.
the bengali word for fair/gora is "phorsha" ... a corrupt word meaninng "of the complexion of a farsi".
also eastern india, be it bengal or eastern coastal india, is where the gonds and other tribal people entered india from (by land in bengal and by sea in peninsula). those guys are related to khemyrs (austonesians) and austroloids.
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read R.C.Mojumdar's "history of bengal".
reading the links in the o.p would tell you something about bengal as it was 2500 years ago.
i always knew that peninsular states and even kalinga/orissa had trade relations with the rest of the world. until i learnt that roman coins and other influences have found in the terracota hotbed of Chandraketugarh.
the bengali word for fair/gora is "phorsha" ... a corrupt word meaninng "of the complexion of a farsi".
also eastern india, be it bengal or eastern coastal india, is where the gonds and other tribal people entered india from (by land in bengal and by sea in peninsula). those guys are related to khemyrs (austonesians) and austroloids.