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The Bengal Presidency was a colonial region of British India; it was made up of undivided Bengal. This area of Bengal is today split into Bangladesh as well as following states of India:

However the Bengal Presidency also later included other areas that are now part of Pakistan and India. The areas of India that used to be part of the presidency include, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, and Himachal Pradesh as well as parts of Chhatisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra. It also included the North-West Frontier and British Punjab provinces of Pakistan as well as Burma. Penang and Singapore were also considered to be part of the Presidency until they became part of the Crown Colony of the Straits Settlements in 1867.


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  • Jahangir of India

    Jahangir first permitted the East India Company (HEIC) to trade in Bengal

  • Clive

    Robert Clive at the Battle of Plassey in 1757, which marked the defeat of the last independent Nawab of Bengal Siraj-ud-Daulah

  • The trail of Warren Hastings, 1788

    The Impeachment of Warren Hastings

  • Photographic Views of Singapore Plate 01 Johnston's Pier

    Johnston's Pier, Singapore in 1856

  • George Nathaniel Curzon - Marble Statue By Frederick William Pomeroy - Victoria Memorial Hall - Kolkata 2018-02-17 1303

    A statue in Calcutta Victoria Memorial of Lord Curzon, who announced the creation of Eastern Bengal and Assam on 16 October 1905

  • King George V 1911 color-crop

    In 1911, King George V announced the annulment of the first partition of Bengal and the transfer of British Raj India's capital from Calcutta to New Delhi

  • A statue at victoria memorial. kolkata

    Statue of Lord William Bentinck in Calcutta Victoria Memorial. As Governor-General, Bentinck made English the medium of instruction in schools and phased out Persian.

  • Ram Mohan Roy statue

    Raja Ram Mohun Roy, a native reformer and educationist

  • The Fort and the Hooghly River in Calcutta (c. 1885)

    Calcutta Port, 1885

  • NarayanganjJuteMill1906

    Labourers at a jute mill in the Port of Narayanganj, 1906

  • James Andrew Broun Ramsay Dalhousie 5718

    Lord Dalhousie is credited for developing railways, telegraph and postal services

  • Bengal Provincial Railway Co. Ltd., certificate

    The certificate of a shareholder in the Bengal Provincial Railway Company Limited

  • Sir Fuller arrives in Dhaka 1905

    The Viceroy of India arrives in the Port of Dhaka in 1908

  • Royal Air Force Operations in the Far East, 1941-1945. CI178

    Royal Air Force planes in Chittagong Airfield

  • -Bengal Horse Artillery,1860- MET DP146172

    Bengal Horse Artillery, 1860

  • Bengal Sapper and Miners Bastion, in Sherpur cantonment, Kabul, Second Afghan War, c. 1879

    Bengal Sappers in Kabul, 1879

  • Bengal famine image

    The Bengal famine of 1943

  • Young tagore and nazrul

    Rabindranath Tagore (while in London in 1879) and Kazi Nazrul Islam (while in the British Indian Army in 1917–1920)

  • 1780-01-29 Berkeley Page 1a

    The frontpage of Hicky's Bengal Gazette on 29 January 1780

  • Portrait of East India Company official

    The Company style of Mughal miniatures

  • Mrshestings

    Painting by Johann Zoffany of Governor-General Warren Hastings and his wife Marian at their garden in Alipore

  • Royal Calcutta Turf Club Race Stands - Viceroy's Cup Day

    Viceroy's Cup Day at the Calcutta Race Course

  • 1776 Rennell - Dury Wall Map of Bihar and Bengal, India - Geographicus - BaharBengal-dury-1776

    Bengal Presidency, 1776

  • 1786 - A map of Bengal, Bahar, Oude & Allahabad - James Rennell - William Faden

    Bengal Presidency, 1786

  • Bengal Presidency 1858

    Map showing northern regions of the Presidency in 1858, including princely states of Kashmir, Rajputana Agency, and the Punjab

  • Joppen1907BritishBengalBritishBurmaA

    Map showing growth of British rule in Bengal and Burma

  • LowerBengal1870Map

    Map denoting Lower Bengal in 1870, including Bengal proper, Orissa, Bihar and Assam; and princely states

  • BengalPartition1905 Map

    Map showing the result of the partition of Bengal in 1905. The western part (Bengal) gained parts of Orissa, while the eastern part (Eastern Bengal and Assam) regained Assam that had been made a separate province in 1874.

  • The Hooghly Bridge (BOND 0034)

    Howrah Bridge in 1945

  • Victoria Memorial, Calcutta - LIFE

    Victoria Memorial, Kolkata

  • Writers Building

    Writer's Building

  • Ruplal House old

    Ruplal House

  • Completed Bridge. (23126065986)

    Hardinge Bridge, 1915

  • Dhaka College 1904

    Dacca College, 1904

  • Madrassa Dhaka 1904

    Dacca Madrasa, 1904

  • Nawab's Shahbagh Garden dhaka 1904 02

    Nawab's Shahbagh Garden, 1904

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