I am revealing a secret to you. Most people do not know the difference between Bengali (WB, India) and Bangladeshi identity. They are two different identities. Bangladeshi people are often confused as Bengali. They are quite different. They (Bangladeshi) have separate language with accent, history, culture and geographical demarcation.
Normally the Bangladeshi people claim Bengali as their official mother tongue and official identity. Virtually it is their step-motherly tongue and step-fatherly identity. A Bangladeshi may claim to be but not exactly a Bengali. Bangladeshi people often use Bengali as co-identity. But this fact is unknown and kept secret.
Bengali language is originally based on dialect spoken in Calcutta and both bank of lower Ganga river (India). Bangladeshi people do not speak Bengali language. They speak Bangladeshi language. Bengali and Bangladeshi is like or more than Hindi-Punjabi difference or Swish-German difference. Though officially Bengali is considered their mother tongue, virtually they speak Bangladeshi which is far different from being Bengali.
There is similar problem in Hindi and Urdu. Officially Hindi and Urdu different language but when spoken both are same.
Bangladeshi people (except Brahmans) cannot be awarded Bengali identity. Their language, accent, intonation, culture is quite different from those of Bengali (Calcutta and lower Ganga river). Brahmans are a race who originally comes from North India. They do not fall into the Bengali-Bangladeshi classification. No author has so far revealed this secret
REFERENCE: The Book
"Bengal : Society and Culture" (English) "Banglar Samaj O Sanskriti" (Bengali),
--- by Kanak Sarkar, Ratna Prakashan, Kolkata-75,
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