The chechina-vakawanda nyika uye yegumi neina-yakakura nyika munzvimbo iyi, West Bengal iri mudunhu rekumabvazuva, ine nzizi dzinoyerera dzakananga muBay of Bengal. Nyika yaive imwe yehutungamiri hukuru hwe3 yenyika, uye ine nhoroondo uye yakakosha kukosha uye yaive yakakosha munguva yekutonga kweBritish. Kuzvitonga kwegore ra1947. Uye hondo ye1971, yakatungamirira kukupatsanurwa kwehurumende. Bhangiradheshi inozivikanwa seEast Pakistan yakavezwa kunze kwenyika. Kolkata ndiro guta guru reWest Bengal. Zvakare, Kolkata raive guta guru panguva yeBritishers kubva 1756 kusvika 1911, uye vapambi vakapinda kuburikidza neEast India Company, kutengeserana kubva kudunhu. Rwiyo rweNyika uye National Anthem yeIndia, "Vande Mataram" uye "Jana Gana Mana" zvakateerana zvakanyorwa nevanyori vaviri vekuIndia, na Bankim Chandra Chatopadhyay, uye Rabindranath Tagore. Ndivo vanhu vane mukurumbira munyika. Mabasa avo akakurumbira anozivikanwa uye anobvumwa pasi rose, uye kunyange mumabhuku epuraimari nesekondari.