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

British conquest after the defeat of the last independent Nawab of Bengal at the Battle of Plassey in 1757
The Victoria Memorial, Kolkata, built in honour of Queen Victoria, Empress of India
A steam engine of the Bengal Provincial Railway, 1905. Bengal was the sixth earliest region in the world to have a railway network in 1854, after Britain, the United States, Italy, France and Spain.
Eastern Bengal and Assam
A jute mill in Narayanganj, 1906. East Bengal accounted for 80% of the world's jute supply.