^van Schendel, Willem (2020). A History of Bangladesh. Cambridge University Press. p. 323. The increasing wealth of Bangladesh's middle classes in the late twentieth century lay at the basis of a remarkable development of the sweets sector...after a trip to another town you are expected to return with that locality's particular sweet...Rajshahi glories in its roshkodom (raskadam; curd balls covered with large white beads of sugar)...