Of or relating to Bengal or its people, language, or culture. n. pl. Bengali or Ben·ga·lis 1. a. A native or inhabitant of Bengal. b. A person of Bengali ancestry. 2. The modern Indic language of Bangladesh and West Bengal, a state of eastern India. American Heritage® Dicti...
In his Introduction to The Origin and Development of the Bengali Language, Chatterjee recalls how, “A young generation of Musalman poets and prosateurs [were] […] transforming the stilted literary Bengali into a natural language […] and keeping true to its native spirit as a Sanskritic lan...