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East Ben·gal [ st ben gáwl ] former region created in 1905 when Bengal Province in northeastern British India was divided into Hindu West Bengal (now Bangla) and the mainly Muslim East Bengal. The division was reversed in 1912 and when British India was partitioned in 1947, East Bengal became East Pakistan. It became the People's Republic of Bangladesh in 1971.
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