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Silver Rupee of the Bengal Presidency, struck in 'Muhammadabad Benaras', in the name of Mughal emperor Shah Alam II, depicting the famous Daroga's marks fish and inverted mace. The Bengal Presidency had the largest gross domestic product in British India. [55] The first British colonial banks in the Indian subcontinent were founded in Bengal.
The Governor of Bengal was the head of the executive government of the Bengal Presidency from 1834 to 1854 and again from 1912 to 1947. [1] [2] The office was initially established on 15 November 1834 as the "Governor of the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal" and was later abolished on 1 May 1854 and the responsibility of the government of the Presidency was vested in the two Lieutenant ...
Therefore, East Bengal had 71 per cent Muslims whereas West Bengal had 70.8 per cent Hindus. [22] The latter had a few more Muslim population from unified Bengal than the Congress would have liked given its plan did not exactly work. Historian Joya Chatterji illustrates how "the figures would have been 68 per cent and 77 per cent respectively ...
The Thacker's Bengal Directory was published from 1864 to 1884 by Thacker, Spink & Company, a well-known Kolkata publishing company. It covered the Bengal Presidency – which included the present day Myanmar and Bangladesh. From 1885 the Directory covered the whole of British India and was renamed Thacker's Indian Directory.
A mezzotint engraving of Fort William, Calcutta, the capital of the Bengal Presidency in British India 1735. The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent. Collectively, they have been called British India. In ...
According to the 2011 census of India, Presidency Division had a population of 32,741,224, roughly equals to the population of Malaysia or the U.S. state of California.. With a population of about 33 million, Presidency Division is the second-most-populous second-level country subdivision in the world, as well as the most populous division of India and West Bengal.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; Wikidata item; ... People from the Bengal Presidency (5 C, 248 P) R. Bengal Renaissance (5 C ...
The Bengal Presidency had the highest gross domestic product in British India. [94] Bengal hosted the most advanced cultural centers in British India. [95] A cosmopolitan, eclectic cultural atmosphere took shape. There were many anglophiles, including the Naib Nazim of Dhaka. A Portuguese missionary published the first book on Bengali grammar ...