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Robert E. Huke
Emeritus Professor of Geography, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Coauthor of Human Geography of Rice in South Asia and others.
Robert E. Huke,
D.M. Sen
Vice-Chancellor, University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India, 1965–69.
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West Bengal, state of India, located in the eastern part of the country. It is bounded to the north by the state of Sikkim and the country of Bhutan, to the northeast by the state of Assam, to the east by the country of Bangladesh, to the south by the Bay of Bengal, to the southwest by the state of Odisha, to the west by the states of Jharkhand and Bihar, and to the northwest by the country of Nepal. West Bengal has a peculiar configuration; its breadth varies from 200 miles (320 km) at one point to hardly 10 ...(100 of 2837 words)

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