Fazli
A Bengali name story connects Fazli with Fazal Bibi and her village of Arapur.
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Names, history & sources
Recorded names
A shared name does not by itself establish an identical cultivar. Place, language and source matter.
- Fazli
India
Traditionally associated with Fazal Bibi of Arapur.
- Fazri
India
A spelling encountered in regional lists; local naming should be checked before assuming identical accessions.
- Fazli Babu
Alternative form recorded in the Murshidabad study.
The woman remembered in a very large mango
Local tradition: an attributed account, with uncertainty preserved.
A study of mango growers in Murshidabad preserves the account that Fazli was named for Fazal Bibi of Arapur. It is an unusually personal thread in mango history: a woman’s name surviving through a fruit whose reputation became much larger than one orchard.
The source records the naming account, but does not supply contemporary evidence from her lifetime. We keep it as tradition. Fazli’s later identity in Malda is well established, and the name Fazli Babu also appears in the same account.
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Country associations alone do not establish botanical origin.
- India
Catalogue association
NHB lists Fazli as a late variety and records it across eastern and northern Indian state lists; spellings vary by page.
- Arapur and Malda, West Bengal
A place in the story
Setting of “The woman remembered in a very large mango”. Read the story for its evidence and qualifications.
Harvest calendars by growing place. These regional calendars do not specify this cultivar’s exact season.