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6 days ago · 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.
Jul 4, 2024 · The Indian Empire was the imperial political structure in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947, comprising British India (a Crown colony: presidencies and provinces directly governed by the British Crown through the Viceroy and Governor-General of India) and Princely States, governed by Indian princes, under the suzerainty of the British Crown exercised through the Viceroy and Governor-General of India.
2 days ago · The subcontinent was to be divided into three major groups of provinces: Group A, to include the Hindu-majority provinces of the Bombay Presidency, Madras, the United Provinces, Bihar, Orissa, and the Central Provinces (virtually all of what became independent India a year later); Group B, to contain the Muslim-majority provinces of the Punjab ...
Jun 16, 2024 · It said that each of the 11 provinces of British India and each of the 559 princely states would be given the option to join India or Pakistan or remain independent.
6 days ago · On August 2, 1858, less than a month after Canning proclaimed the victory of British arms, Parliament passed the Government of India Act, transferring British power over India from the East India Company, whose ineptitude was primarily blamed for the mutiny, to the crown.
Jul 4, 2024 · -An Account of all Sums received by The East India Company on Bills of Exchange remitted to them from their several Presidencies and Settlements in India, and their Factory at Canton, respectively, in each Year, from 1814-15 to 1828-29 inclusive; distinguishing Bills drawn on Territorial and Commercial Account; and shewing also the Amount drawn ...
6 days ago · The North-West Frontier Province (NWFP; Pashto: شمال لویدیځ سرحدي ولایت, Urdu: شمال مغربی سرحدی صوبہ) was a province of British India from 1901 to 1947, of the Dominion of Pakistan from 1947 to 1955, and of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan from 1970 to 2010.
