পশ্চিমবঙ্গ

West Bengal

State · Capital Kolkata · 91.3 million people (2011)

Art and craft
Kalighat painting originated in 19th-century Kolkata, West Bengal, where patua artists used bold outlines and vibrant colours for mythological and everyday scenes.
Weave (GI)
Baluchari saree, GI tag 2012
Music and dance
Baul songs; Rabindra Sangeet
Festival
Durga Puja (UNESCO, 2021); Poila Baisakh
Taste
Rosogolla (GI, 2017); mishti doi; sandesh
3 World Heritage sites
Mountain Railways of India · Sundarbans National Park · Santiniketan
Official symbols
Animal: Fishing cat · Bird: White-throated kingfisher · Flower: Night-flowering jasmine (Seuli) · Tree: Blackboard tree (Chhatim)

Kolkata-born Rabindranath Tagore won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913, the first non-European to receive it.