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The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, later the Bengal Province, was the largest of all three presidencies of British India during Company rule and later a province of India. [5]
presidencies in British India: Bombay, Madras, and Bengal, in British India, provinces under the direct control and supervision of, early on, the East India Company and, after 1857, the British government. The three key presidencies in India were the Madras Presidency, the Bengal Presidency, and the Bombay Presidency.
By the mid-18th century, the three principal trading settlements including factories and forts, were then called the Madras Presidency (or the Presidency of Fort St. George), the Bombay Presidency, and the Bengal Presidency (or the Presidency of Fort William)—each administered by a governor.
Karuna Banerjee (Bengali: করুণা ব্যানার্জী) (25 December 1919 – 13 November 2001) was a Bengali actress best known for her role in Satyajit Ray 's The Apu Trilogy (1955–1959) as the long suffering mother, Sarbajaya.
Introduction. The British Empire was at its peak at the turn of the 20th century. Its colony of India (today’s India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) was the largest part of a globe-spanning collection of dominions and colonies overseen by the king/emperor and his government in London.
Mar 28, 2008 · Summary. Early in the eighteenth century the very diverse areas which now make up three states of contemporary India, West Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, together with present-day Bangladesh, were loosely welded together under a single Governor to form the eastern wing of the Mughal empire.
Aug 19, 2017 · Credit: Ankit Panda. When the British partitioned India and departed the subcontinent 70 years ago, the delineation of the border between the new states of India and Pakistan — the Radcliffe...
