Bengali (South Asian people)

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013168
- info:lc/authorities/sh85013168
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85013168#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Bangala (South Asian people)
- Bangali (South Asian people)
- Bangla (South Asian people)
- Bangoli (South Asian people)
- Bengalis
Broader Terms
- Ethnology--Bangladesh
- Ethnology--India
Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://stitch.cs.vu.nl/vocabularies/rameau/ark:/12148/cb119431716
Earlier Established Forms
- Bengalis
Sources
- found: Work cat.: Roy, B. Bamlara lokakatha ... 1987.
- found: Ethnologue: p. 250 (Bengali (Bangala, Bangali, Bangla, Bangoli, Bangla Bhasa))
- found: American heritage dict. (Bengali, n., pl. Bengali or -lis. A native or inhabitant of Bengal)
- notfound: Choudhury, M. Tribes ancient India;Murdock world cult.;Raghavaiah, V. Tribes of India
LC Classification
- DS432.B4
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 2006-07-11: revised

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