bangal

plural bangals

1. Alternative letter-case form of Bangal.

   East Bengal registered a thumping 4-0 win over Mohun Bagan to seal the Calcutta Football League (CFL) title, and for the time being bangals have scored a point over the ghotis.

   2015 September 6, Mail Today Comment, “QUICK EDIT: AIFF needs to nurture Indian football”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Oct 2015

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   The bangals deride ghoti food as cloyingly sweet, bland without much oil and spices — ‘What do the ghotis know of good cooking anyway?’ On their part, the ghotis decry the bangal way of eating foul smelling shutki fish and drowning their food in too much oil and spices. ‘The bangals even put fish in their shukto, can you believe it?’ they exclaim.

   1995, The India Magazine of Her People and Culture, Mumbai, →OCLC, page 106, column 1

   Labelled with distinct identities, ghotis are the original inhabitants of West Bengal, and bangals are those who have migrated from Bangladesh. The bangals have been stereotyped as shrewd, opportunistic, greedy, parochial, and considered good enough only to become cooks or sweet-makers. The ghotis consider themselves superior to bangals.

   2005, The Indian Journal of Social Work, Mumbai: Department of Publications, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11

   Since the onset of modernity in the nineteenth century, West Bengalis or ghotis from the Calcutta area, who are generally Hindu, have enjoyed a certain cultural ascendancy within Bengal: they consider themselves more modern, more culturally refined, and more progressive than the bangals, who are dismissed as comparatively backward country bumpkins.

   2009, Bhaskar Sarkar, “Bengali Cinema: A Spectral Subnationality”, in Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, →ISBN, part I (A Resonant Silence), page 158

plural Bangals · alternative bangal

1. IndiaA Bengali who originates from eastern Bengal.

   My father’s family were Bangals, Hindus from East Bengal, who had arrived after Partition when East Bengal became East Pakistan, and eventually Bangladesh.

   2017, Kushanava Choudhury, “Sealdah”, in The Epic City: The World on the Streets of Calcutta, London; New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Circus, →ISBN, part III, page 178

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   In fact there exists subtle animosity between the Bangals and the Ghotis (East Bengal immigrants are called Bangals, and the residing Bengali Hindus are called Ghotis). The cause is economic; […]

   2009, Sabya Sachi, “Of Fish and Beef, the New Recipe of the Muslim Identity: A Journey through the Cultural Prism of West Bengal”, in Ather Farouqui, editor, Muslims and Media Images: News versus Views, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, part II (Transcending Boundaries), page 135

   The Bangals are from erstwhile East Bengal, or what is today Bangladesh. At the risk of making a broad generaliation, you can say that the general rule of thumb is that Ghoti dishes are a bit sweet, while Bangal dishes are spicy, have a strong chilli element and are savoury.

   2016, Kalyan Karmakar, “Sweet Home Kolkata”, in The Travelling Belly: Eating Through India’s By-Lanes, Gurgaon, Haryana: Hachette India, →ISBN, page 29

1. A barangay of Dinalupihan, Bataan, Philippines.