North Bengal (Bengali: উত্তর বঙ্গ) is a term used for the northern parts of West Bengal . It includes the six districts of Cooch Behar, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, North Dinajpur, South Dinajpur and Malda. The region shares its borders with Bihar and Nepal in the east, Sikkim and Bhutan in the north, Assam and Bangladesh in the east and is divided with the rest of West Bengal by the river Ganga to the south .
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“I felt that he, a prisoner in the midst of his enemies and under the sentence of death, if consulted as to his next step or resource, could answer more wisely than all his countrymen beside. He best understood his position; he contemplated it most calmly. Comparatively, all other men, North and South, were beside themselves.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In Bengal to move at all
Is seldom, if ever, done,
But mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.”
—Noël Coward (1899–1973)