Everything about East India totally explained
East India, more properly eastern India, is a region of
India consisting of the states of
West Bengal,
Bihar,
Jharkhand, and
Orissa. It is geographically between
North India and
North-East India, and shares many cultural and linguistic characteristics with
Bangladesh, which formed part of this region before
Partition. The
Indo-Aryan languages spoken in this region descend from the
Magadhi Prakrits spoken in the ancient kingdom of
Magadha. Of these,
Magadhi and
Oriya, which remain virtually unchanged for over a thousand years, are considered the most direct descendants. Bengali and Assamese emerged as distinct languages from Magadhi Prakrit around 9/10
th century A.D. Bengali is the dominant language of this part of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, being spoken by well over 200 million people in West Bengal and Bangladesh.
Many of the
adivasis (indigenous tribal people) of East India belong to the
Munda branch of the
Austro-Asiatic language family. Major representatives of this group include the
Munda,
Santal, and
Ho peoples.
Durga and
Jagannath are particularly popular deities in this region.
Puri is the eastern center for pilgrimage in Hinduism, and Bhubaneswar is considered to be the city of temples.
West Bengal's capital
Kolkata, the capital of British India till 1911, is the biggest metropolis and economically dominant city of the region. However, the mid-sized cities of
Bhubaneswar,
Cuttack and
Puri in Orissa, and Bihar's capital
Patna, were historically more prominent in the anceint and medieval periods.
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