Bengal Presidency facts for kids

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.

Images for kids

Jahangir first permitted the East India Company (HEIC) to trade in Bengal
Robert Clive at the Battle of Plassey in 1757, which marked the defeat of the last independent Nawab of Bengal Siraj-ud-Daulah
Johnston's Pier, Singapore in 1856
A statue in Calcutta Victoria Memorial of Lord Curzon, who announced the creation of Eastern Bengal and Assam on 16 October 1905
In 1911, George V announced the annulment of the first partition of Bengal and the transfer of India's capital from Calcutta to New Delhi
Fort William, 1828
Calcutta High Court, 1860s
The Legislative Council met in Calcutta Town Hall
Statesmen who served as the Prime Minister of Bengal
The 13th Dalai Lama in Calcutta in 1910
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.
Calcutta Port, 1885
Lord Dalhousie is credited for developing railways, telegraph and postal services
The certificate of a shareholder in the Bengal Provincial Railway Company Limited
The Viceroy of India arrives in the Port of Dhaka in 1908
Royal Air Force planes in Chittagong Airfield
Bengal Horse Artillery, 1860
The Bengal famine of 1943
Rabindranath Tagore (while in London in 1879) and Kazi Nazrul Islam (while in the British Indian Army in 1917-1920)
The frontpage of Hicky's Bengal Gazette on 29 January 1780
The Company style of Mughal miniatures
Viceroy's Cup Day at the Calcutta Race Course
Bengal Presidency, 1776
Bengal Presidency, 1786
Northern part of Bengal Presidency, 1858
Map showing growth of British rule in Bengal and Burma
Straits Settlements Residency, including Prince of Wales Island (Penang), Malacca and Singapore
Map showing northern regions of the Presidency in 1858, including princely states of Kashmir, Rajputana Agency, and the Punjab
Map denoting Lower Bengal in 1870, including Bengal proper, Orissa, Bihar and Assam; and princely states
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.
Howrah Bridge in 1945
Victoria Memorial, Kolkata
Writer's Building
Ruplal House
Hardinge Bridge, 1915
Dacca College, 1904
Dacca Madrasa, 1904
Nawab's Shahbagh Garden, 1904