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Thus, by 1877, the Bengal Presidency included only modern-day Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and Bengal. In 1905, the first partition of Bengal resulted in the short-lived state of Eastern Bengal and Assam which existed alongside the Bengal Presidency. In 1912, the state was merged back with the Bengal Presidency while Bihar and Orissa became a ...
The Thacker's Bengal Directory was published from 1864 to 1884 by Thacker, Spink & Company, a well-known Kolkata publishing company. It covered the Bengal Presidency – which included the present day Myanmar and Bangladesh. From 1885 the Directory covered the whole of British India and was renamed Thacker's Indian Directory.
A mezzotint engraving of Fort William, Calcutta, the capital of the Bengal Presidency in British India 1735. The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In ...
The Hindus of West Bengal complained that the division would make them a minority in a province that would incorporate the province of Bihar and Orissa. Hindus were outraged at this "divide and rule" policy, [2] [3]: 248–249 even though Curzon stressed it would produce administrative efficiency. The partition animated the Muslims to form ...
Districts, often known as zillas in vernacular, were established as subdivisions of the provinces and divisions of British India that were under Bengal Presidency.Then it was established as subdivisions the most Provinces of British India [2]
Extent of the Bengal Presidency between 1858 and 1867, including the Straits Settlements. Through trade, settlements and the exchange of ideas; parts of Maritime Southeast Asia became linked with Bengal. [112] [113] Language, literature, art, governing systems, religions and philosophies in ancient Sumatra and Java were influenced by Bengal.
Manbhum District as part of the Chota Nagpur Division, Bengal Presidency, 1872 In 1833, the East India Company formed the Manbhum district with its headquarters in Manbazar , covering an area of 7,896 square miles (chiefly Panchet and half of its adjacent Midnapore region ), by dividing the Jungle-Mahal region to enhance administrative efficiency.
The Bengal Presidency had the highest gross domestic product in British India. [94] Bengal hosted the most advanced cultural centers in British India. [95] A cosmopolitan, eclectic cultural atmosphere took shape. There were many anglophiles, including the Naib Nazim of Dhaka. A Portuguese missionary published the first book on Bengali grammar ...