History of Bangladesh:

People of Bangladesh
Origin & Anthropological Identity
Territories of Bangladesh in Ancient Time
In the official Bengali language the name Bangladesh means In the site of
history Bangladesh have a rich reputation. whats will we describe in our
presentation are given below:
The religion of Bangldeshi people.

Educational states of Bangladeshi people.

Health condition of people of Bangladesh.

Culture followed by Bangladeshi.

Music and Arts of Bangladesh.

Cuisine of Bangladesh.

Dress and festivals of Bangladesh.

Agricultural condition of Bangladesh.

Fondness for sports among the people of Bangladesh.

Origin and Anthropological identity of Bangladesh.

Territories of Bangeladesh in Ancient time.

People of Bangladesh
Religion:
There are many religious people lived in Bangladesh. Most of them
are muslim. However, Bangladesh follows combined system of
state laws and individual religious laws applicable to people of
respective religious group. The main religion in Bangladesh is
Islam (90.3%), but a significant percentage of the population
adheres to Hinduism (8.7%).The majority of Muslims are Sunni,
although a small number are Twelver Shias or Shias.Bangladesh is
the second largest Muslim populated state after Indonesia with
over 150million.
Education:
Bangladesh has a low literacy rate, estimated at 61.3% for males
and 52.2% for females in 2010.The educational system in
Bangladesh is three-tiered and highly subsidised. The government
of Bangladesh operates many schools in the primary, secondary,
and higher secondary levels. It also subsidises parts of the funding
for many private schools. In the tertiary education sector, the
government also funds more than 15 state universities through the
University Grants Commission.
 Health:
Health and education levels remain relatively low, although they
have improved recently as poverty (31% at 2010 ]) levels have
decreased. Most Bangladeshis continue to live on subsistence
farming in rural villages. For those in rural areas, village doctors with
little or no formal training constitute 62% of the healthcare providers
practising modern medicine and the formally trained providers are
occupying a mere 4% of the total health workforce. The number of
hospital beds per 10 000 population is 4.The General government
expenditure on healthcare as a percentage of total government
expenditure was only 7.9% as of 2009 and the citizens pay most of
their health care bills as the out-of-pocket expenditure as a
percentage of private expenditure on health is 96.5%.
culture:
Reflecting the long history of the region, Bangladesh has a culture
that encompasses elements both old and new.
Literature:
The Bengali language boasts a rich literary heritage, which Bangladesh shares
with the Indian state of West Bengal. The earliest literary text in Bengali is the
8th century Charyapada.Bngali literature reached its full expression in the 19th
century, with its greatest icons being poets, the national poet Kazi Nazrul
Islam, Rabindranath Tagor, Sarat Chandra, Jasim Uddin and many other and
present day Humayun Ahmed. Bangladesh also has a long tradition in folk
literature, for example Maimansingha Gitika Thakurmar Jhuli and stories related
to Gopal Bhar, Birbal and Molla Nasiruddin.
Music and Arts:
The musical tradition of Bangladesh is lyrics-based (Baniprodhan), with minimal
instrumental accompaniment. Numerous musical traditions exist including
Gombhira, Bhatiali and Bhawaiya, varying from one region to the next. Folk
music is accompanied by the ektara, an instrument with only one string. .
Other instruments include the dotara, dhol, flute and tabla. Bangladesh also
has an active heritage in North Indian classical music
 Cuisine: The culinary tradition of Bangladesh has close relations to surrounding
Bengali and North- East Indian cuisine as well as having its own unique Rice and fish
are traditional favourites. Biryani is a favourite dish of Bangladesh and this includes
egg biryani, mutton biryani and beef biryani. Bangladeshis make distinctive from
milk products, some common ones being Rshogolla, Rasmalai, chmchm and
kalojam.

Dress:
The sari (shai) is by far the most widely worn dress by Bangladeshi women. A guild
of weavers in Dhaka is renowned for producing saris from exquisite Jamdani muslin
The salwar kameez (shaloar kamiz) is also quite popular,
especially among the younger females, and in urban areas some women wear
western attire. Among men, western attire is more widely adopted. Men also wear
the kurta-paejama combination, often on special occasions, and the lungi , a kind of
long skirt for men.
 Bangladesh has many architectural
monuments which contain the history and
tradition of thousands of years.
Some Architectural monuments in
Bangladesh:
 Bangladesh is sports loving country. Here
people of all ages appreciate sports
spontaneously.
Cricket is the most popular sports in this
country followed by football . Other popular
sports are-
 According to the anthropologist Bangladesh
has been a land of many races. It is a land
of mixture of different races which added to
the earlier stocks.
The main peopling of this land is by the
Dravidians who came from southern and
western part of South-Asia.
People known as Aryans who came from the
northern middle east and eastern of europe
got mixed with the Dravidians after 600 B.C.
 They Gradually mixed with the Austric and
mongoloid people already in Bangladesh
and produced the physical features which
are so common nowadays.
Later the immigrants-Arabs,Turks, and
Pathans also came to this land and added
their physical stock in the mixture.
So that we have a variety of physical
feature in Bangladesh
There are also some group of people who
are called tribal people.
 Territories of
Bangladesh in ancient
time
 Another great city of Vangas was located at
Warri-Bateshwar in Narsingdi. This City as
well as Gange had maritime trades with
Roman Empire, Middle East and Far East.
Garments made of Muslin textile produced
in Vanga were the liking of the emperors,
kings and noblemen all over the world,
including Roman Emperors and Egyptian
Pharaohs. The British rulers of Bengal
destroyed the Muslin industry in the
nineteenth century AD,
 Greek and Sicilian historians mentioned
Vanga as Gangaderoi or the heart of
Ganges, and its capital as Gange.

The Shishunag Dynasty based in Bihar

used to rule the whole of North India. In
the year of 354 BC, Dhanananda
defeated Shishunags in a battle, and
made the whole of North India a part of
his Vanga Kingdom.
 Present day North Bangladesh plus some
part of northern West Bengal was the
territory of Pundra tribe, and their Capital
City was Pundranagara, now known as
Mahasthangar, a ruin in Bogra.
 The Vanga Kingdom was a powerful
seafaring nation of Ancient India. They had
overseas trade relations with Java, Sumatra
and Siam (modern day Thailand).
 The pre-Gupta period of Bengal is shrouded
with obscurity. Before the conquest of
Samudragupta Bengal was divided into two
kingdoms: Pushkarana and Samatata.
Chandragupta II had defeated a
confederacy of Vanga kings resulting in
Bengal becoming part of the Gupta Empire.
 Pala dynasty were the first independent
Buddhistdynasty of Bengal. The name Pala
(Bengali: pal) means protector and was
used as an ending to the names of all Pala
monarchs. The Palas were followers of the
Mahayana and Tantric schools of Buddhism
 The Palas were followed by the Sena dynasty who brought Bengal
under one ruler during the 12th century. Vijay Sen the second
ruler of this dynasty defeated the last Pala emperor Madanapala
and established his reign. Ballal Sena introduced caste system in
Bengal and made Nabadwip the capital. The fourth king of this
dynasty Lakshman Senexpanded the empire beyond Bengal to
Bihar. Lakshman fled to eastern Bengal under the onslaught of the
Muslims without facing them in battle. The Sena dynasty brought
a period of revival in Hinduism in Bengal. A popular myth
comprehended by some Bengali authors about Jayadeva, the
famous Sanskrit poet of Orissa (then known as the Kalinga) and
author of Gita Govinda, was one of the Pancharatnas (meaning 5
gems) in the court of Lakshman Sen (although this may be
disputed by some).
 Islam made its first appearance in Bengal
during the 12th century when Sufi
missionaries arrived. Beginning in 1202, a
military commander from the Delhi
Sultanate, Bakhtiar Khilji, overran Bihar and
Bengal as far east as Rangpur, Bogra and
the Brahmaputra River. The defeated
Laksman Sen and his two sons moved to a
place then called Vikramapur (present-day
Munshiganj District), where their diminished
dominion lasted until the late 13th century
 Mahmud Shahi dynasty started when
Nasiruddin Bughra Khan declared
independence in Bengal. Thus Bengal
regained her independence back.
Nasiruddin Bughra Khan and his successors
ruled Bengal for 23 years finally being
incorporated into Delhi Sultanate by
Ghyiasuddin Tughlaq.
 Shamsuddin Iliyas Shah founded an
independent dynasty that lasted from 1342-
1487. The dynasty successfully repulsed
attempts by Delhi to conquer them. They
continued to reel in the territory of modern-
day Bengal, reaching to Khulna in the south
and Sylhet in the east
 Bengal came once more under the control of Delhi as the Mughals
conquered it in 1576. At that time Dhaka became a Mughal
provincial capital. But it remained remote and thus a difficult to
govern the region especially the section east of the Brahmaputra
River remained outside the mainstream of Mughal politics. The
Bengali ethnic and linguistic identity further crystallized during
this period, since the whole of Bengal was united under an able
and long-lasting administration. Furthermore its inhabitants were
given sufficient autonomy to cultivate their own customs and
literature.
In 1612, during Emperor Jahangir's reign, the defeat of Sylhet
completed the Mughal conquest of Bengal with the exception of
Chittagong. At this time Dhaka rose in prominence by becoming
the provincial capital of Bengal. Chittagong was later annexed in
order to stifle Arakanese raids from the east. A well-known Dhaka
landmark, Lalbagh Fort, was built during Aurangzeb's sovereignty.
 we are Bangladeshi.So it is very important to
know the history of our country. By preparing this
report we have gained an idea about our history
which enriches our knowledge. As this is a group
assignment we have got an opportunity to do a
team work and we can share our ideas, views ,
creativities and etc.