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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.
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.
Presidencies and provinces of British India - Wikipedia. A mezzotint engraving of Fort William, Calcutta, the capital of the Bengal Presidency in British India 1735. The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.
Suchitra Sen was born on Monday, 6 April 1931 (age 82 years; at the time of death) in Bhanga Bari village of Belkuchi Upazila, Pabna, Bengal Presidency, British India (now in Siraj Ganj District, Greater Pabna, Bangladesh). Her zodiac sign is Aries.
The company's Bengal Presidency grew into the largest administrative unit of British India with Calcutta as the capital of both Bengal and India until 1911. As a result of the first partition of Bengal , a short-lived province called Eastern Bengal and Assam existed between 1905 and 1911 with its capital in the former Mughal capital Dhaka .
Sanjukta Das Gupta. This paper aims to highlight the multiple and sometimes contradictory strands in the British colonial discourse on nature and indigeneity in India.
