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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 Bengal Presidency encompassed Bengal, Bihar, parts of present-day Chhattisgarh, Orissa, and Assam. [ 4 ] : 157 With a population of 78.5 million it was British India's largest province. [ 5 ] : 280 For decades British officials had maintained that the huge size created difficulties for effective management [ 4 ] : 156 [ 6 ] : 156 and had ...
Sir Andrew Fraser (Western Bengal); Sir Bampfylde Fuller (Eastern Bengal and Assam) 1905–1906; Francis Slacke (Western Bengal) 1906–1908; Lancelot Hare (Eastern Bengal and Assam) 1906–1911; Sir Edward Baker (Western Bengal) 1908–1911; Sir William Duke (Western Bengal); Sir Charles Stuart Bayley (Eastern Bengal and Assam) 1911–1912
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 ...
People from the Bengal Presidency (5 C, 248 P) R. Bengal Renaissance (5 C, 23 P) S. State Assembly elections in the Bengal Presidency (2 P) Pages in category "Bengal ...
Warren Hastings FRS (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818) was a British colonial administrator, who served as the first governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and so the first governor-general of Bengal in 1772–1785.
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 ...
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 ...