They are all Afghan..That's something I have been thinking as well. We should rather name the ships after our own heroes from the Bengal Sultanate, Alauddin Hussain Shah, Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah etc.
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They are all Afghan..That's something I have been thinking as well. We should rather name the ships after our own heroes from the Bengal Sultanate, Alauddin Hussain Shah, Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah etc.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think you meant Turkic and not Turkish, which is mostly associated with the country of Turkey, don't think anyone from Turkey ruled over Bengal.If we do end up choosing Turkey as build-partner for the new frigates, I suggest these be named alternatively after the Turkish rulers and early Bengal Sultanate rulers, which would be appropriate in any case.
That makes a lot more sense than Chetona names like "Nabajatra" and "Joyjatra" etc.
Names of most major naval vessels in other nations have ancient leaders/rulers/warriors as namesakes. I know it is a bit early for this. But it is a sore ongoing point with me.
Bold part: It was Turkic and also many Pashtun Muslims from the eastern Garmshiar of present-day Afghanistan who domiciled themselves in Bengal and they were certainly not Turkish. Sometimes, people make mistakes between the two terms, Turkic and Turkish.Correct me if I'm wrong but I think you meant Turkic and not Turkish, which is mostly associated with the country of Turkey, don't think anyone from Turkey ruled over Bengal.
In any case don't you want it to be named after Bengalis?
Bangladeshi military assets should be named after in my opinion leaders starting from shere-e-bangla onwards.
We have the language martyrs, 71 martyrs..... we are hardly lacking in this space.
We need to have direct connection to names and personality we lionise.
Nah , if we get a space program then we should name space missions or rockets after them lol
Bold part: It was Turkic and also many Pashtun Muslims from the eastern Garmshiar of present-day Afghanistan who domiciled themselves in Bengal and they were certainly not Turkish. Sometimes, people make mistakes between the two terms, Turkic and Turkish.
It is 1200 to 1203 AD, about 9 years after Kutubuddin Aibek under Muhammed Ghori of another group captured Delhi that this first group of foreign Muslims arrived in Bihar and Bengal and settled with their retinues, soldiers, and their families.
I wonder if our BAL Chetona group knows this history of Bengal or not.
They are all Afghan..
I would like to correct two points below:BAL Chetona group do know, but will not acknowledge this history willingly. Does not fit their overall "chetona" narrative, being that they are more Hindu in mindset than Hindus themselves. That Eastern Bengal (Bengal Subah) was ruled since the 1200's by Muslim rulers is something that the Chetona folks would rather sweep under the rug. And these rulers were more or less very benevolent rulers, unlike the oppressive Hindu Sen and Pal kings that came before them, forcing the lower and lower middle classes in Eastern Bengal carry the oppressive yoke of class structure on their lone shoulders.
It doesn't matter. We all are migrants in someway. Even the upper caste Hindus of Bengal claim to have arrived from north of Vindhya.
Bengalis are a mixture of people from different genetic/demographic backgrounds. The "Bengali identity" itself is a construct of the Bengal sultanate.
We Bengalis (Eastern Bengalis) have a lot of Asiatic Mongoloid blood. Especially the further South in Bangladesh you go. Lot of seafaring and trade went on in the early days, as well as Buddhist Religious expeditionary activity in between our land and the kingdoms of Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and China and vice versa.
The fact that we look different than the rest of Indian Hindus is also because of Muslim migrations to Eastern Bengal (in addition to Mongol blood). Detractors try to make jokes about it but I have seen this myself when I visited Gulf countries.
IMHO, the more diverse the mix, the stronger the bloodline. The more talent.
In any case - this is off topic, back to our regular programming...
Cool cool , by the way how tf did we go from talking about modern warships to Mongolians lmao

We Bengalis (Eastern Bengalis) have a lot of Asiatic Mongoloid blood. Especially the further South in Bangladesh you go. Lot of seafaring and trade went on in the early days, as well as Buddhist Religious expeditionary activity in between our land and the kingdoms of Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and China and vice versa.
The fact that we look different than the rest of Indian Hindus is also because of Muslim migrations to Eastern Bengal (in addition to Mongol blood). Detractors try to make jokes about it but I have seen this myself when I visited Gulf countries.
IMHO, the more diverse the mix, the stronger the bloodline. The more talent.
In any case - this is off topic, back to our regular programming...