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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. [5]
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.
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. Collectively, they have been called British India.
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.
Midnapore District was probably one of the districts in Bengal where the Nationalist Movement created and sustained social alliances among the contending classes in the context of the anti-imperialist struggle.
BOOK REVIEW. British Rule in Bengal. P.J. Marshall, Bengal: The British Bridgehead, Eastern India 1740- 1828, The New Cambridge History of India, Vol. II. 2, Cambridge. University Press, Cambridge, 1987. P.J. Marshall's book contains a comprehensive discussion of the major.
