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Districts, often known as zillas in vernacular, were established as subdivisions of the provinces and divisions of British India that were under Bengal Presidency.Then it was established as subdivisions the most Provinces of British India [2]
In 1947, when India gained independence, the state of West Bengal was formed, with 14 districts, as per partition plan of the then Bengal province of British India. [2] [3] The former princely state Koch Bihar joined as a district on 26 January 1950, [4] and the former French enclave Chandannagore joined as part of the Hooghly district in 1954. [5]
The seven Bengal Regulation Districts were named as 'divisions' in 1851: . Jessore Division, area 14,853 sq mi, population 5,345,472 (1851); Bhagalpur Division area ...
Berar was added to the province in 1903, and was renamed the Central Provinces and Berar in 1936. Burma: Lower Burma annexed 1852, established as a province in 1862, Upper Burma incorporated in 1886. Separated from British India in 1937 to become administered independently by the newly established British Government Burma Office.
Bengal Province or Province of Bengal, may refer to the Imperial Province of the Bengal region under two periods of imperial rule in South Asia: Bengal Subah (1574–1765), Province (Subah) of the Mughal Empire until 1717 and Independent State after 1717; Bengal Presidency (1765–1947), Presidency of the British Indian Empire
As per order of the Delimitation Commission in respect of the delimitation of constituencies in the West Bengal, the whole are under the subdivision, viz. the Kalimpong municipality and the three blocks of Kalimpong–I, Kalimpong–II and Gorubathan together constituted the Kalimpong assembly constituency of West Bengal.
The provinces were bounded on the north by Tibet, and on the north-east by Nepal; on the east and south-east by the Champaran, Saran, Shahabad, and Palamau Districts of Bengal; on the south by two of the Chota Nagpur States in the Central Provinces, Rewah and some small States in the Central India kanpur technical augor District in the Central Provinces; on the west by the States of Gwalior ...
Persian: صوبه بنگاله.), also referred to as Mughal Bengal and Bengal State (after 1717), was the largest subdivision of Mughal India encompassing much of the Bengal region, which includes modern-day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and some parts of the present-day Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha between the ...