Portal:Bengal/DYK
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Did you know...
- ...that Rajshahi College is the first institution in Bangladesh offering Masters degree?
- ...that the Sannyasi Rebellion was a series of clashes between Indian ascetics and the British East India Company during the eighteenth century in Bengal?
- ...that the Korotoa River, a small stream in Rajshahi Division of Bangladesh, was once a large and sacred river?
- ...that the Young Bengal leader Ramgopal Ghosh was threatened with ostracism for opposing the Hindu religion?
- ...that Job Charnock landed at Sutanuti on 24 August, 1690 with the objective of establishing the settlement, which is now Calcutta?
- ...that Asit Kumar Haldar was the first Indian fellow at the Royal Society of Arts?
