Bengal Presidency

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colonial administrative division presidency of British India

The Bengal Presidency was a major administrative division of British India, encompassing much of eastern and northeastern India and serving as a key political and economic center under colonial rule.

Aliases (5)

Bengal Province ×2
Bengal Presidency (earlier administrative framework) ×1
Bengal Presidency (historical) ×1
Government of Bengal Presidency ×1
Province of Bengal ×1

Statements (114)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	colonial administrative division → presidency of British India →
administrativeCentre	Calcutta →
appliesToJurisdiction	Assam → Bengal → Bihar → Ceylon (at certain early periods) → Orissa → Straits Settlements (at certain periods) → parts of present-day Arunachal Pradesh → parts of present-day Assam → parts of present-day Bihar → parts of present-day Chhattisgarh → parts of present-day Jharkhand → parts of present-day Madhya Pradesh → parts of present-day Meghalaya → parts of present-day Mizoram → parts of present-day Myanmar → parts of present-day Nagaland → parts of present-day Odisha → parts of present-day Pakistan (Sind and Punjab at various times) → parts of present-day Tripura → parts of present-day Uttar Pradesh → parts of present-day West Bengal → present-day Bangladesh →
capital	Calcutta →
contains	Bhagalpur → Burdwan → Calcutta → Chittagong → Cuttack → Dacca → Dinajpur → Hooghly → Jessore → Midnapore → Murshidabad → Mymensingh → Noakhali → Pabna → Patna → Rajshahi → Rangoon (during certain periods) → Sylhet → Tripura (as a princely state under its political influence) →
country	British India →
currency	Indian rupee →
dissolved	1947 →
economy	center of jute trade → center of tea trade → major exporter of indigo → major exporter of opium → major exporter of raw cotton → major exporter of rice →
endTime	1947 →
establishedBy	British East India Company →
followedBy	Assam Province → Bihar and Orissa Province → East Bengal and Assam → Orissa Province → Province of Bengal → United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (for some transferred territories) →
governingBody	British Crown → British East India Company →
headOfGovernment	Governor of Bengal → Governor-General of India (after 1833) →
highestCourt	Calcutta High Court → Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William (historically) →
inception	1765 →
knownFor	Permanent Settlement land revenue system → early center of British colonial administration in India → major political and economic center of British India → role in early Indian nationalist movement →
languageUsed	Assamese → Bengali → English → Hindi → Oriya → Urdu →
legalSystem	Anglo-Indian law →
locatedIn	South Asia → eastern India → northeastern India →
militaryUnit	Bengal Army → Bengal Artillery → Bengal Cavalry → Bengal Native Infantry →
partOf	British Empire →
precededBy	Mughal Subah of Bengal → Nawab of Bengal →
significantEvent	Annulment of Partition of Bengal 1911 → Battle of Buxar → Battle of Plassey → Indian Rebellion of 1857 → Partition of Bengal 1905 → Permanent Settlement of Bengal → transfer of capital from Calcutta to Delhi in 1911 →
significantPerson	Aurobindo Ghosh → Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay → Chittaranjan Das → Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar → Lord Cornwallis → Lord Curzon → Lord Wellesley → Rabindranath Tagore → Raja Ram Mohan Roy → Robert Clive → Subhas Chandra Bose → Surendranath Banerjee → Warren Hastings →
startTime	1765 →
subdivisionType	commissionership → district → division →

Referenced by (68)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
C. R. Das → Iskander Mirza → Jibanananda Das → Lord Roberts → Nabaneeta Dev Sen → Rabindranath Tagore → Satyajit Ray → Satyendra Nath Bose → Satyendra Nath Bose → Swami Vivekananda → Vivien Leigh →	placeOfBirth
Commander-in-Chief, Bengal → Company rule in India → Cornwallis Code → Council of the Governor-General → Governor-General of Bengal → Partition of Bengal 1905 →	appliesToJurisdiction
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay → Debendranath Tagore → Fazlur Rahman Khan → Kazi Nazrul Islam → Sri Aurobindo → Surendranath Banerjee →	birthPlace
Barrackpore incident of 1857 → Calcutta session of the Indian National Congress (1920) → Council of the Governor-General → Direct Action Day → Swadeshi movement →	location
Dinapore → Etawah, North-Western Provinces, British India → North-Western Provinces → United Provinces of Agra and Oudh ("Bengal Presidency (earlier administrative framework)") →	partOf
Bihar and Orissa Province ("Bengal Province") → Central Provinces → United Provinces of Agra and Oudh →	borderedBy
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay → Debendranath Tagore → Mangal Pandey →	deathPlace
Bengal Presidency ("Province of Bengal") → British conquest of Bengal → Nawab of Bengal →	followedBy
Mrinalini Devi → Surendranath Banerjee → Vande Mataram →	region
British East India Company → EIC →	governedTerritory
Bengal Army → Bengal European Regiment →	operatedIn
Gyanadanandini Devi → Satyendranath Tagore →	placeOfActivity
C. R. Das → Rabindranath Tagore →	placeOfDeath
Bihar and Orissa Province → Bihar and Orissa Province ("Bengal Province") →	predecessor
Lal-Bal-Pal trio → Mangal Pandey →	regionOfActivity
Anandamath →	firstPublishedIn
British East India Company →	foundedCity
All India Muslim League →	foundedIn
Bengal European Regiment →	garrisonLocation
Commander-in-Chief, Bengal ("Government of Bengal Presidency") →	governingBody
Champaran →	historicallyPartOf
Writers’ Building ("Bengal Presidency (historical)") →	locatedIn
Calcutta →	locatedInCountrySubdivision
Governor-General of Bengal →	locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity
Charter Act 1853 →	regionAffected
Odisha (parts) →	relatedTo
Bengal Subah →	subsequentEntity