East Bengali

adjective

1. of or relating to East Bengal (now Bangladesh) or its inhabitants

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of East Bengal

Example Sentences

To my mother’s genteel West Bengali relatives, my father’s family was the embodiment of East Bengali hickdom: when his brothers sat down to lunch, they would pile their rice in a mound and punch a volcanic crater in it for gravy, as if marking the insatiable hunger of their village days.

From The New Yorker

Bihari has to its east Bengali, also a language of the Outer Band.

From Project Gutenberg

On that day, the National Assembly that was elected in December 1970�minus, of course, its 169 East Bengali members�will be convened in Islamabad to draft a permanent constitution.

From Time Magazine Archive

At week's end there were reports that East Bengali rebels were maintaining a precarious hold on Jessore and perhaps Chittagong.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last month he announced that he was prepared to fight for Bangla Desh, the East Bengali independence movement spawned by the Pakistani civil war.

From Time Magazine Archive