Lahiry P. C. (1964). India partitioned and minorities in pakistan. quoted in Kamra A. J. (2000). The prolonged partition and its pogroms : testimonies on violence against Hindus in East Bengal 1946-64. pp. 189
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They [East Bengal Hindus] played a conspicuous role in social, economic and political activities of the province of undivided Bengal. Partition has ruined this virile , dynamic and creative community . They are dehumanised, demoralised, and degenerated human beings, having been denied the rights of citizenship and elementary human rights to live a peaceful social life . Day in and day out they live in constant fear and terror. Worries are writ large on their faces. ...

— Bengalis

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "They [East Bengal Hindus] played a conspicuous role in social, economic and political activities of the province of undivided Bengal. Partition has ruined this virile , dynamic and creative community . They are dehumanised, demoralised, and degenerated human beings, having been denied the rights of citizenship and elementary human rights to live a peaceful social life . Day in and day out they live in constant fear and terror. Worries are writ large on their faces. ..." in the context of "Lahiry P. C. (1964). India partitioned and minorities in pakistan. quoted in Kamra A. J. (2000). The prolonged partition and its pogroms : testimonies on violence against Hindus in East Bengal 1946-64. pp. 189" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Bengalis

About Bengalis

Bengalis (বাঙালি baŋgali), also rendered as Bangalee or the Bengali people, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia. The native population is divided between the independent country Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam's Barak Valley. Most of them speak Bengali, a language from the Indo-Aryan language family.