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

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William Makepeace Thackeray birthPlace Bengal Presidency
Raja Ram Mohan Roy birthPlace Bengal Presidency
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar placeOfBirth Bengal Presidency
Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar placeOfDeath Bengal Presidency
Abhay Charan De birthPlace Bengal Presidency
British opium trade in China productionBase Bengal Presidency
Bipin placeOfBirth Bengal Presidency
subject surface form: Bipin Chandra Pal
Bipin placeOfDeath Bengal Presidency
subject surface form: Bipin Chandra Pal
Ashutosh Mukherjee birthPlace Bengal Presidency
Rajlakshmi Devi residence Bengal Presidency
Jagdishpur locatedInFormerTerritorialEntity Bengal Presidency
this entity surface form: Bengal Presidency (British India)
Shyama Prasad Mukherjee placeOfBirth Bengal Presidency
Eden sisters placeOfActivity Bengal Presidency
Brahmo Samaj placeFounded Bengal Presidency
Shamsur Rahman birthPlace Bengal Presidency
Pather Panchali culturalContext Bengal Presidency
this entity surface form: Bengal Presidency under British India
Partition of Bengal 1947 location Bengal Presidency
Hector Munro placeOfActivity Bengal Presidency
Syed Shamsul Haque placeOfBirth Bengal Presidency
Benares Division partOf Bengal Presidency
Keshab Chandra Sen birthPlace Bengal Presidency
Keshab Chandra Sen deathPlace Bengal Presidency
Shakti Chattopadhyay birthPlace Bengal Presidency
Government of India Act 1912 relatedTo Bengal Presidency
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay birthPlace Bengal Presidency
Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay deathPlace Bengal Presidency
Raja Rajnarayan Dutt region Bengal Presidency
Dwarkanath Tagore birthPlace Bengal Presidency
Ritwik Ghatak placeOfBirth Bengal Presidency
Zahir Raihan birthPlace Bengal Presidency
Uttam Kumar placeOfBirth Bengal Presidency
Soumitra Chatterjee placeOfBirth Bengal Presidency
Humayun Azad placeOfBirth Bengal Presidency
Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay birthPlace Bengal Presidency
Sunil Gangopadhyay birthPlace Bengal Presidency
Sukumar Ray placeOfBirth Bengal Presidency
Sukumar Ray placeOfDeath Bengal Presidency
Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury birthPlace Bengal Presidency
Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury deathPlace Bengal Presidency
Buddhadeb Dasgupta birthPlace Bengal Presidency
Colin Mackenzie deathPlace Bengal Presidency
Kanika Banerjee placeOfBirth Bengal Presidency
this entity surface form: Bengal Presidency, British India