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Description: A Bengali name story connects Fazli with Fazal Bibi and her village of Arapur.

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# Fazli

A Bengali name story connects Fazli with Fazal Bibi and her village of Arapur.

## About this name

This record preserves a local name and its context. A complete tasting guide and cultivar photograph have not yet been added.

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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.

- [NHB: Mango cultivation and varieties](https://www.nhb.gov.in/report_files/mango/MANGO.htm)

- [Indian Journal of Extension Education (2022): Mango growers’ preferences in Murshidabad](https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJEE/article/download/128433/47973/466770)

**Fazri**

India

A spelling encountered in regional lists; local naming should be checked before assuming identical accessions.

- [NHB: Mango cultivation and varieties](https://www.nhb.gov.in/report_files/mango/MANGO.htm)

- [Indian Journal of Extension Education (2022): Mango growers’ preferences in Murshidabad](https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJEE/article/download/128433/47973/466770)

**Fazli Babu**

Alternative form recorded in the Murshidabad study.

- [Indian Journal of Extension Education (2022): Mango growers’ preferences in Murshidabad](https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJEE/article/download/128433/47973/466770)

- [National Horticulture Board: Mango varieties and growing regions](https://www.nhb.gov.in/report_files/mango/MANGO.htm)

## 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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- [Indian Journal of Extension Education (2022): Mango growers’ preferences in Murshidabad](https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJEE/article/download/128433/47973/466770)

- [National Horticulture Board: Mango varieties and growing regions](https://www.nhb.gov.in/report_files/mango/MANGO.htm)

## Places in this record

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.

  - [NHB: Mango cultivation and varieties](https://www.nhb.gov.in/report_files/mango/MANGO.htm)

- **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.

  - [Indian Journal of Extension Education (2022): Mango growers’ preferences in Murshidabad](https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJEE/article/download/128433/47973/466770)

  - [National Horticulture Board: Mango varieties and growing regions](https://www.nhb.gov.in/report_files/mango/MANGO.htm)

[Harvest calendars by growing place](https://mangoranking.com/seasons.md). These regional calendars do not specify this cultivar’s exact season.

## Sources

- [NHB: Mango cultivation and varieties](https://www.nhb.gov.in/report_files/mango/MANGO.htm)

- [Indian Journal of Extension Education (2022): Mango growers’ preferences in Murshidabad](https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJEE/article/download/128433/47973/466770)

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