Bengal (Presidency)
The Presidency of Bengal (English: Bengal Presidency ) was next to the Bombay Presidency and Madras Presidency one of the three administrative units of British India .
geography
The Bengal Presidency comprised mainly the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent and extended to the area of what is now Bangladesh and the following Indian states : West Bengal , Assam , Bihar , Orissa , Uttar Pradesh , Uttarakhand , Punjab , Haryana , Himachal Pradesh and parts of Chhattisgarh , Madhya Pradesh , Maharashtra , Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province and Burma . Penang and Singapore were also part of the Bengal Presidency until they were incorporated into the Straits Settlements Crown Colony in 1867 .
history
The Bengal Presidency was established in 1684 and administered by the East India Company until it was annexed to the British Crown in 1858. The seat of government was in Fort William fortress in Calcutta . In 1877 Queen Victoria received the title of Empress of India and the British declared Calcutta the capital of the "Crown Colony of India". On October 16, 1905, India's most populous province of Bengal (one of the most active in the liberation struggle) was divided by the British for administrative reasons - into a western part of the country including Bihars and Orissa with an overwhelming Hindu majority and an eastern part including the province of Assam with a clear Muslim majority . Indian nationalists saw this division as a means for the British colonial rulers to sow discord among the Bengali people, who had always formed a unity in language and history. After several violent riots, the English revised the division of Bengal in 1912 and continued the Bengali-speaking areas as the province of Bengal until 1947.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ N. Jayapalan: History Of India (from National Movement To Present Day) . tape 4 . Atlantic Publishers & Dist, New Delhi 2001, ISBN 81-7156-917-X , pp. 15 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed January 29, 2017]).