...This chapter investigates the expeditions of the Survey of India in Sylhet district and Cachar duringthe 1920s and 1930s. The expeditions had the purpose of demarcating the outer boundaries of the Mughal diwani grant of 1765. They reported on Rangpur and Garo Hills, north Tripura...

... statistics Somalis Spitalfields Sylhet Sylheti language British citizenship First World War Londonis Bengalis living in the UK ‘race riots’ seamen's union Second World War Adams Caroline Ali Aftab British Nationality Act Midlands North of England Partition of India and Pakistan passports...

... was born in Sylhet, Bangladesh. He talks about how he found three goddesses in his life who brought him love, strength, and empowerment. He remembers his good old carefree childhood days and his mischiefs. Read about his life adventure that includes visiting Jatra (Bengali Theatre), attending Durgo Pujo...

..., for the strength inherited from her brave mother. This chapter begins with beautiful fisheries, large ponds, boats carrying flowers, and a lot of natural beauty of Sylhet, Bangladesh (then East Pakistan), and then partition takes it to Assam, but it took 13 years for this family of seven kids and two parents...

...The Assamese–Bengali animosity in post-Partition Assam was considerably aggravated owing to the Referendum in the Bengali-speaking district of Sylhet. The question of status of the Assamese language was closely linked with the question of Sylhet, which tilted the scales against an Assamese...

...This chapter studies the biggest haor system in Bangladesh, the Hakaluki Haor, located in the Sylhet and Moulvi Bazar districts of north-eastern Bangladesh which has been declared an Ecologically Critical Area (ECA). There is an attempt to develop a sustainable...

...This chapter investigates the means by which the East India Company (EIC) strove to establish control in the diwani territories, including Sylhet district and (subsequently) south Cachar.The chapter studies the conflict ridden process of establishing bureaucratic and military...

... territories of Sylhet, Khasi, Jaintia, Garo hills, and Assam. This chapter shows how the ambiguity and imprecision of colonial boundaries intensified legally sanctioned violence. The chapter points to the shifting relationship between colonial administrators in Bengal, local authorities in the hills...