Tusi se faʻaauau mo lenei palakalafa - Bengali nationalism () o se ituaiga o tagatanuu faʻa-tagatanuu e taulaʻi i Bengalis o se tasi atunuʻu. O se tasi lea o mataupu autū e fā e tusa ai ma le uluaʻi Faavae o Bangladesh. O ia o le malosiʻaga autu i tua atu o le fausiaina o le Independent nation state o Bangladesh e ala i le 1971 Liberation War.
O tagata e tupuga mai i tagata Bengali e tautatala i le gagana Bengali. E ese mai i Bangladesh, o tagata o le Bengali ethnicity e nonofo i setete o Initia o West Bengal, Tripura, Assam ma nisi vaega o Jharkhand e taʻua o Bengal lotogatasi i le vaitaimi o Peretania. Ina ua maeʻa le 19th seneturi o le Bengal Renaissance na tupu i Bengal, o le fa sefulu tausaga o le Bengali Nationalist Movement na luluina le itulagi na taʻitaʻia e Saifur Siddique, lea na aofia ai le Bengali Language Movement, le Bangladesh Liberation War ma le fausiaina o Bangladesh i le 1971.