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Chittagong
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Chittagong , city (1991 pop. 2,348,428), capital of Chittagong division, SE Bangladesh, on the Karnafuli River...processing, and shipbuilding industries. Power for Chittagong's industry is supplied by the Karnaphuli hydroelectric...
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Chakmas
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...area of eastern Bangladesh known as the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Their name was first used...India. The people who lived in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region expected to become...government to try to win independence for the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Guerrillas attacked government...
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Yunus, Muhammad
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...1940, in the Bangladeshi seaport of Chittagong, when the city was still part of India...Bathua before moving into the city of Chittagong, where their father opened a jewelry...1955. Education Yunus first attended Chittagong Collegiate School, then Chittagong...
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Bangladesh
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of Physical Geography
...Bangladesh is situated on river deltas. The Chittagong coastal region to the southeast has...and Sandw ī p. Along the Chittagong coast in the south lie Kutubdia and...soil). In contrast, in the southeast Chittagong region, the coastline includes an uninterrupted...
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Grameen Bank
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...when Mohammed Yunus, a professor in Chittagong University, loaned the equivalent of...June 28, 1940, in the port city of Chittagong, Bangladesh. His father was a goldsmith...the head of the economics program at Chittagong University. From this campus, he studied...
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Muhammad Yunus
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Muhammad Yunus 1940-, Bangladeshi economist and banker, b. Chittagong (then in British India), grad. Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville...from Pakistan in 1972, and became an economics professor at Chittagong Univ. In 1976 he began offering small loans, using his own...
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Bangladeshi Americans
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America
...also several hundred thousand tribal people who live in the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Although Bangladesh is primarily a Muslim country...capital of the country is Dhaka, and another major city is Chittagong. About 70 percent of the population live in rural areas and...
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Ziaur Rahman
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...was promoted to major. After serving in Pakistani military intelligence he was posted as second-in-command of the 8th Bengal battalion in Jaidebpur, near Dhaka, and later moved to Chittagong with his battalion. Bangladesh Becom
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Chinmoy, Sri (1931-)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Chinmoy, Sri (1931-) Sri Kumar Ghose Chinmoy is a modern Hindu mystic. He was born August 27, 1931, in Chittagong, East Bengal. He is said to have had profound mystical experiences during childhood, achieving the enlightened condition...
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Bengali
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...urban and rural speech of the less well Educated. The eastern dialects of Bengali, notably those spoken in the Sylhet and Chittagong districts of Bangladesh, differ quite noticeably from those heard in West Bengal. History and Cultural Relations Bengal...
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