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Bihar and Orissa was a province of British India, [1] which included the present-day Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and parts of Odisha.The territories were conquered by the British in the 18th and 19th centuries, and were governed by the then Indian Civil Service of the Bengal Presidency, the largest administrative subdivision in British India.
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The company gained administrative control over the Nawab's dominions, including Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. It gained the right to collect taxes on behalf of the Mughal Court after the Battle of Buxar in 1765. Bengal, Bihar and Orissa were made part of the Bengal Presidency and annexed into the British colonial empire in 1793.
These new provinces were western Bengal with Bihar and Orissa, and East Bengal and Assam. In 1912, Eastern Bengal was reunited with western Bengali districts, Bihar and Orissa was separated, and Assam was made a chief commissioner's province. [citation needed] Assam and the Lushai Hills became part of the Province of Assam in 1912.
On 1 April 1936, Bihar and Orissa were split into separate provinces. [61] The new province of Orissa came into existence on a linguistic basis during the British rule in India, with Sir John Austen Hubback as the first governor. [61] [62] Following India's independence, on 15 August 1947, 27 princely states signed the document to join Orissa. [63]
The province included the Orissa Tributary States. On 1 April 1912, the province of Bihar and Orissa was detached from Bengal, and the Orissa Tributary States were placed under the authority of the governor of Bihar and Orissa. In 1936, Orissa became a separate province with five districts, [3] comprising an area of 83,392 km 2. [4]
He founded the city of Murshidabad and named the city after himself. It became the center of political, economic and cultural life in Bengal. The jurisdiction of the Nawab included not only Bengal, but also Bihar and Orissa. [10] Murshidabad was also located centrally in the expanded jurisdiction of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa.
[8]: 148 The western districts formed the other province with Orissa and Bihar. [7]: 289 The union of western Bengal with Orissa and Bihar reduced the speakers of the Bengali language to a minority. [5]: 280 Muslims led by the Nawab Sallimullah of Dhaka supported the partition and Hindus opposed it. [9]: 39