Bengal is an unincorporated community in Hendricks Township, Shelby County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.

[2] A post office was established at Bengal in 1881, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1902.

[3] The community most likely took its name from Bengal, in Asia.

[4] In the 1910s, Bengal had its own high school.

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