The Essence of Bengal’s Ethnic Sweetmeats: An Exploratory Journey through History, Tradition, and Culture

Figure 1

The map of West Bengal and Bangladesh. Undivided Bengal was made up of the West Bengal (Indian state) and the sovereign state of Bangladesh, with a total area of more than 228,000 square km. This landscape constitutes more than 222 million people of which West Bengal possess around 81 million and Bangladesh 141 million, which helped to build the Bengali “nation.”