Bengal Presidency (ind)

Bengal Presidency

Bengal Presidency ranks 4,539th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Peabody, Massachusetts, Wageningen, and Achrafieh. Memorable people born in Bengal Presidency include Ramdhari Singh Dinkar, M. N. Roy, and Dwarkanath Tagore. Memorable people who died in Bengal Presidency include Siraj ud-Daulah. Bengal Presidency has been the birth place of many writers, and social activists and the death place of many politicians. Bengal Presidency is located in India.

The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, later the Bengal Province, was the largest of all three presidencies of British India during Company rule and later a province of India. At the height of its territorial jurisdiction, it covered large parts of what is now South Asia and Southeast Asia. Bengal proper covered the ethno-linguistic region of Bengal. Calcutta, the city which grew around Fort William, was the capital of the Bengal Presidency. For many years, the governor of Bengal was concurrently the governor-general of India and Calcutta was the capital of India until 1911. Read more on Wikipedia