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Calcutta -The Capital of British Empire
History Of Calcutta Calcutta was the capital of the British Empire. It was started in 1686 by Job Charnock. Initially the British settled in port at Hooghly (or Hugli). But due to disagreements with the Mughals and it was a river side ,Charnock sought a new site for the British . The villages : Sultanuti Kolkata Gobindapur were bought from the Sabarna Ray Choudhury family. This was how it was presented in history. But actually it was leased to the Charnock for for monthly rent of 1300 Rs. The British paid rent until the Battle of Plassey :1657. Then Bengal was theirs. Then lot of historical events including Nawab Sirajul Dowla’s…
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The Jamdani Story
Jamdani is referred to Saris worn by Bangladeshi and people worn by people from the Indian Sub contienient. A sari or saree is dress worn by women since 1800 BC in India. This dress is worn by women from India,Bangladesh,Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. The word sari comes from the Sanskirit work satika. This happens to be national dress of women of Bangladesh and India. There are in fact three parts when wearing sari : Sari Petticot Blouse. In fact Blouse came in British times , and before the British they actually did not wear a blouse. A Indian woman wearing Sari. Jamdani is a special type of Sari found…
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The Halal Nomics
Halal means allowed in perspective of Islam in Arabic. It is not something completely new. Judaism has Kosher meat. The Halal market is now about 2 Trillion US Dollar industry, Kosher is a process of slaughtering livestock which then becomes permissible for eating by the Jews. Like wise Halal is process of slaughtering live stock after which becomes fit for consumption by Muslims. If there is no halal meat then Kosher meat can be consumed by the Muslims. The Halal industry was in some ways was shown the ways by Jews. It is not like Muslims started their own industry just like that. In US products like Chewing gum had…
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Turkey and Dirilis Ertugrul
Turkey Turkey happened to be an interesting country with great contrasts and much of everything included. Turkey is in the news for a lot of things ,which includes the movie by Mehmet Bozdag: Dirilis Ertugrul The Origin of the Turks the Turks came from some where in the Altai Mountains ,of western Mongolia, which would make them some way related to Mongolians. The first reference was in Chinese records :2000 BC. The line age of the Turks are as follows: The most famous leader and ancestor among them is Oghuz Khan. He was born around 2000 BC. He had 6 sons. We concentrate on two Sons of Oghuz Khan: GUN…
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Story of Indica Collection.
Indica Collection ,the concept started around 18 years ago in one of the dormitories of IIT Kanpur. Indica Collection began as an idea to make an ecommerce site where ethnic goods from Bangladesh and nearby would be sold. Primarily thought as Vanga.com. Vanga happened to be the ancient name Of Bengal. But scope was limited to Bengal. Why not whole of this region.? The thing was then what would have been the name? I came across Indica that would define this region since historical times. The belief in Indica Collection has given rise to many things. Business or no business the belief in Indica Collection has made me come this…
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Natali’s Bohemian Style!
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Start Day Positive
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Life Is Adventure
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