Bengal Presidency
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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.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
colonial administrative division
ⓘ
presidency of British India ⓘ |
| administrativeCentre | Calcutta ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction |
Assam
ⓘ
Bengal ⓘ Bihar ⓘ British Ceylon ⓘ
surface form:
Ceylon (at certain early periods)
Orissa ⓘ Straits Settlements ⓘ
surface form:
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 ⓘ Dhaka ⓘ
surface form:
Dacca
Dinajpur ⓘ Hooghly River ⓘ
surface form:
Hooghly
Jessore ⓘ Midnapore ⓘ Murshidabad ⓘ Mymensingh ⓘ Noakhali ⓘ Pabna ⓘ Patna ⓘ Rajshahi ⓘ Yangon ⓘ
surface form:
Rangoon (during certain periods)
Sylhet ⓘ Tripura ⓘ
surface form:
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
ⓘ
surface form:
Assam Province
Bihar and Orissa Province ⓘ East Bengal and Assam ⓘ Orissa ⓘ
surface form:
Orissa Province
Bengal Presidency self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Province of Bengal
United Provinces of Agra and Oudh ⓘ
surface form:
United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (for some transferred territories)
|
| governingBody |
British Crown
ⓘ
British East India Company ⓘ |
| headOfGovernment |
Governor-General of Bengal
ⓘ
surface form:
Governor of Bengal
Viceroy of India ⓘ
surface form:
Governor-General of India (after 1833)
|
| highestCourt |
Calcutta High Court
ⓘ
Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William (historically) ⓘ |
| inception | 1765 ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Permanent Settlement of Bengal
ⓘ
surface form:
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 ⓘ Odia ⓘ
surface form:
Oriya
Urdu language ⓘ
surface form:
Urdu
|
| legalSystem | Anglo-Indian law ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
South Asia
ⓘ
eastern India ⓘ Northeast India ⓘ
surface form:
northeastern India
|
| militaryUnit |
Bengal Army
ⓘ
Bengal Army ⓘ
surface form:
Bengal Artillery
Bengal Army ⓘ
surface form:
Bengal Cavalry
Bengal Army ⓘ
surface form:
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 |
Sri Aurobindo
ⓘ
surface form:
Aurobindo Ghosh
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay ⓘ Chittaranjan Das ⓘ Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar ⓘ Charles Cornwallis ⓘ
surface form:
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 (218)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Province of Bengal
this entity surface form:
Bengal Presidency (earlier administrative framework)
this entity surface form:
Bengal Presidency (historical)
this entity surface form:
Bengal Province
this entity surface form:
Bengal Province
subject surface form:
Satyendra Nath Bose