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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Suchitra Mitra placeOfBirth Bengal Presidency
Saradamani Mukhopadhyay placeOfBirth Bengal Presidency
Saradamani Mukhopadhyay placeOfDeath Bengal Presidency
Major-General Louis Lipsett birthPlace Bengal Presidency
subject surface form: Louis Lipsett
Indian indenture system recruitmentRegion Bengal Presidency
Sarada Devi residence Bengal Presidency
subject surface form: Sarada Devi (wife of Debendranath Tagore)
Muhammad Yunus birthPlace Bengal Presidency
Gaganendranath Tagore placeOfBirth Bengal Presidency
Gaganendranath Tagore placeOfDeath Bengal Presidency
William Jones (philologist) placeOfDeath Bengal Presidency
A. K. Fazlul Huq birthPlace Bengal Presidency
Marianne Imhoff residence Bengal Presidency
Great Calcutta Killings location Bengal Presidency
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy ministry in Bengal subdivision Bengal Presidency
this entity surface form: Province of Bengal
Noakhali riots location Bengal Presidency
Company Presidencies hadMajorPresidency Bengal Presidency
Charles Wyatt workLocation Bengal Presidency
Sisir Kumar Bose placeOfBirth Bengal Presidency
Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal appliesToJurisdiction Bengal Presidency
this entity surface form: Bengal Province
Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal locatedIn Bengal Presidency
Iskander Ali Mirza placeOfBirth Bengal Presidency
Buddhadeva Bose birthPlace Bengal Presidency
First Anglo-Maratha War involved Bengal Presidency
Mubarak ud-Daulah historicalRegion Bengal Presidency
this entity surface form: Bengal Presidency (later under British rule)
Mira Devi region Bengal Presidency
this entity surface form: Bengal Presidency (historical)
Mansur Ali Khan successorState Bengal Presidency
this entity surface form: British-administered Bengal
Mohammad Ali of Bogra birthPlace Bengal Presidency
Bogra Nawab family historicalTerritory Bengal Presidency
Indira Devi Chaudhurani placeOfBirth Bengal Presidency
Sarala Devi Chaudhurani placeOfBirth Bengal Presidency
Sir John Shore associatedWithPlace Bengal Presidency
Code of 1793 appliesToJurisdiction Bengal Presidency
Deshbandhu region Bengal Presidency
subject surface form: Chittaranjan Das
Bengal Legislative Council appliesToJurisdiction Bengal Presidency
this entity surface form: Province of Bengal