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- uncountableThe quality or state of being Bengali.
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With introductory chapters on Calcutta as one of the premier cities of the British Empire and its place in modern India as a burgeoning metropolis, interspersed with a glut of rare photographs sourced from newspapers, archives, private and institutional collections worldwide, Calcutta Then – Kolkata Now is a tenderly written love letter to the city’s culture, its literary greatness, the establishments that govern the nation today that it first introduced, its gracious buildings that earned it the moniker ‘City of Palaces’, multitudes of festivals and people and its rooted Bengaliness.
2019 January 16, Deepa Alexander, “The Calcutta chromosome”, in The Hindu
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Bengaliness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bengaliness
“Bengaliness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bengaliness. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Bengaliness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bengaliness.
Source: Bengaliness on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.