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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.
Cuisine of Bangladesh.
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.