ABSTRACT
The music of West Bengal and Bangladesh is commonly known as Bengali music, after the Bengal region of northeast India that existed before the partition of 1947. In that year, Bengal was divided into East and West Bengal, and they became provinces of Pakistan and India respectively. In 1971, East Bengal fought a war with Pakistan to break away and become the independent nation of Bangladesh. West Bengal remained an Indian state. The two regions share a common musical tradition inherited from the pre-1947 period, as well as the Bengali language, in which song texts in that tradition were written.
