Etymology
North Bengal at present, means the history of the northernmost six districts of West Bengal; though in earlier times, before the partition of India in 1947, North Bengal included the northern districts of the whole of Bengal; and on account of that, besides Jalpaiguri, Cooch Behar, Darjeeling, Northern and Southern Dinajpur and Malda, North Bengal comprised the districts of Rangpur and Rajshahi, presently part of Bangladesh. Ancient North Bengal represented ancient Poundravardhana and later on Varendri, when Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar were part of ancient Kamrupa and Kamatapur respectively. For this reason of geographical changes of the area of North Bengal from time to time, very few historians have treaded on the path of writing the history of North Bengal, though there is no dearth of articles on different ethnic groups of people living in North Bengal from the early times.
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