title: Bengalization
text: # Bengalization
  
  Bengalization may refer to:
  
  * Spread of the Bengali language, people and culture:
     * Bengali Renaissance - a movement in Bengal region during the period of the British Indian Empire period
     * Bengali nationalism - a form of nationalism that focuses on Bengalis as a singular nation
     * Bengali language movement - a movement to recognize Bengali as an official language in former East Pakistan
     * Bangladeshi diaspora - people of Bangladeshi descent who have immigrated to or were born in another country
     * Greater Bangladesh - a conspiracy theory of a United Bengal
  * A cultural shift of whereby populations in North East Indian states adopted historical Bengali culture and languages.
  