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The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, later the Bengal Province, was the largest of all three presidencies of British India during Company rule and later a province of India.
Suchitra Sen was born on 6 April 1925, in a Bengali Baidya family of Bhanga Bari village of Sirajganj District, Bengal (now in Sirajganj District, Bangladesh). Her father, Korunamoy Dasgupta, was a Sanitary Inspector of Pabna Municipality and her mother, Indira Devi, was a homemaker. Sen was their fifth child and second daughter.
The first Partition of Bengal (1905) was a territorial reorganization of the Bengal Presidency implemented by the authorities of the British Raj. The reorganization separated the largely Muslim eastern areas from the largely Hindu western areas.
The presidencies in British India were provinces of that region under the direct control and supervision of, initially, the East India Company and, after 1857, the British government. The three key presidencies in India were the Madras Presidency, the Bengal Presidency, and the Bombay Presidency.
Some Lesser Known Facts About Suchitra Sen. Suchitra Sen was a veteran Indian actress, who worked in Hindi and Bengali films. She became the first Indian actress to win the Moscow International Film Festival award for the movie Saat Pakey Bandha IN 1963. Suchitra Sen was married at a very young of 15.
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The Bengal Presidency, in contradiction to those of the Madras Presidency and Bombay Presidency, ultimately incorporated all the British territories north of the Central Provinces (Madhya Pradesh), from the mouths of Ganga River and Brahmaputra River to the Himalayas and Punjab.