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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 chief institution of this criminal court system was known as the Ṣadr Nizami ʿAdālat ("Administrative Court of Justice") in Calcutta of Bengal Presidency. This chief Administrative Court in Calcutta Criminal oversaw criminal courts in outlying districts and in Madras and Bombay Presidencies.
'Revolutionary Maulana'), [2] was a Bengali philosopher, nationalist activist and journalist from Islamabad (now known as Chittagong) in Bengal Presidency, British India (present-day Bangladesh). [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was among the founders of the Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind .
Extent of the Bengal Presidency between 1858 and 1867, including the Straits Settlements. Through trade, settlements and the exchange of ideas; parts of Maritime Southeast Asia became linked with Bengal. [112] [113] Language, literature, art, governing systems, religions and philosophies in ancient Sumatra and Java were influenced by Bengal.
Fazlul Huq was the president of the Midnapore Session of the Bengal Provincial Conference in 1920. [5] During the Khilafat movement, Fazlul Huq led the pro-British faction within the Bengal Provincial Muslim League, while his rival Maniruzzaman Islamabadi led the pro-Ottoman faction. Fazlul Huq also differed with the Congress leadership during ...
Nurul Amin was born on 15 July 1893 in Shahbazpur, Sarail located in the Tippera District of the Bengal Presidency (now in Brahmanbaria District, Bangladesh). [1] He belonged to a Bengali Muslim family from the village of Bahadurpur in Nandail, Mymensingh District. [2]
Rahman was born in 1881 to the Bengali Muslim Sheikh family in the village of Tungipara located in Gopalganj, Faridpur district, Bengal Presidency.He had Iraqi Arab ancestry through his father Sheikh Abdul Hamid, who was a direct descendant of Muslim preacher Sheikh Abdul Awal Darwish of Baghdad in his 6th generation, who had arrived in the late Mughal era in Bengal.
Qazi Abdul Latif was born into an aristocratic Bengali Muslim Qazi family in Rajapur, Faridpur District, Bengal Presidency in the then British India (now in Bangladesh).The ancestors of the Qazis of Rajapur had come and settled in Bengal from Hijaz in Arabia, via Delhi, Qazi Abdur Rasul son of Shah Azimuddin who was a descendant of Khalid ibn Walid had setltled in Faridpur during the Mughal ...