Crossword-Solution: BENGALIS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BENGALIS | anagram | BELGIANS, SINGABLE |
We have 3 clues for the answer “BENGALIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Calcutta natives | 1 answer |
| Kolkata natives | 1 answer |
| INDIAN inhabitant(s) | 38 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
REETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BENGALIS (5)
One of these Bengalis has been twice to Mecca, at an expense of 40 pounds on each visit, and on Friday appears in a rich Hadji suit, in which he goes through the town, and those Mussulmen who are not Hadji bow down to him.
Bengalis were as scarce as poodles among the simple Borderers, who cut each other’s heads open with their long spades and worshipped impartially at Hindu and Mahomedan shrines.
The Mahrattis are aborigines of the West of India, as the Bengalis are of, the East; but to what group of tribes belong these two nationalities no ethnographer can define, save perhaps a German.
This is a strange fact, which I refused to believe at first, but which has been confirmed by many English officers and by Bengalis themselves.
What I want to ask you is whether you've ever heard anything in this quarter of a man called Heatherstone, the same who used to be colonel of the 41st Bengalis? They told me at Wigtown that he lived somewhere down this way.” “He lives in that large house over yonder,” said I, pointing to Cloomber Tower.
Quotes with BENGALIS (2)
I think that a kind of guilt works at a subconscious level in the minds of the Bengalis regarding the women tortured during the Liberation War. The War went on only for nine months, it was the responsibility of the people of that liberated nation that the period of torture was lengthened beyond that for these women. This is presented to the reader in my novel Talaash, by narrating the story of 30 years of that post-War abuse. Maybe because there was a subconscious guilt about…
Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1972–2020).