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Culture of West Bengal
Overview
The culture of West Bengal is an Indian culture which has its roots in Bengali literature, music, fine arts, drama and cinema. It is intertwined with the culture of the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent. Different geographic regions of West Bengal have subtle as well as more pronounced variations between each other, with Darjeeling Himalayan hill region and Duars showing particularly different socio-cultural aspects.
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The culture of Bengal defines the cultural heritage of the Bengali people native to eastern regions of the Indian subcontinent, mainly what is today Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal, Assam's Barak Valley, Tripura, parts of Jharkhand, where they form the dominant ethnolinguistic group and the Bengali language is the official and primary language.
The Indian subcontinent is a physiographic region of Asia south of the Himalayas which projects into the Indian Ocean between the Bay of Bengal to the east and the Arabian Sea to the west.
The Dooars or Duars are the alluvial floodplains in eastern-northeastern India and southern Bhutan that lie south of the outer foothills of the Himalayas and north of the Brahmaputra River basin.
An adda is a term in Bengali referring to when several individuals hang out typically in neighbourhoods, homes, tea stalls, clubs, parks, and other public or private spaces.
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What is Culture of West Bengal?
The culture of West Bengal is an Indian culture which has its roots in Bengali literature, music, fine arts, drama and cinema. It is intertwined with the culture of the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent.
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The main concepts connected to Culture of West Bengal include Culture of Bengal, Indian subcontinent, Dooars, Adda (South Asian). Each is linked on the map above with its own summary.
Which exams cover Culture of West Bengal?
Culture of West Bengal is part of State Studies, which appears in the syllabus of WBPSC.