Bengal Legislative Council

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Bengal_Legislative_Council

GPTKB entity

Statements (70)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	legislation
gptkbp:dissolved	1947
gptkbp:established	1862
gptkbp:firstAwarded	1862
gptkbp:firstClaim	1947
gptkbp:headquarters	Calcutta
gptkbp:historicalSignificance	First legislative council in India
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Bengal Legislative Council
gptkbp:legislation	Advisory powers
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Bengal,_India
gptkbp:members	Elected and nominated members
gptkbp:notable_member	gptkb:K._C._Neogy gptkb:K._S._Rajasekhara_Reddy gptkb:M._K._Gandhi gptkb:B._R._Ambedkar gptkb:Mulayam_Singh_Yadav gptkb:H._C._Mukherjee gptkb:K._M._Munshi gptkb:Mamata_Banerjee gptkb:Narendra_Modi gptkb:Nitish_Kumar gptkb:Priyanka_Gandhi_Vadra gptkb:Subhas_Chandra_Bose gptkb:V._K._Krishna_Menon gptkb:K._A._Paul gptkb:Lalu_Prasad_Yadav gptkb:Devendra_Fadnavis gptkb:M._Karunanidhi gptkb:R._C._Dutt gptkb:Akhilesh_Yadav gptkb:Sharad_Pawar gptkb:Rahul_Gandhi gptkb:M._S._Golwalkar gptkb:P._V._Narasimha_Rao gptkb:K._R._Narayanan gptkb:Sir_Ashutosh_Mukherjee gptkb:Sonia_Gandhi gptkb:G._B._Pant gptkb:A._P._J._Abdul_Kalam gptkb:S._Radhakrishnan gptkb:Amit_Shah gptkb:Raja_of_Darbhanga gptkb:Y._S._Jagan_Mohan_Reddy gptkb:Manmohan_Singh gptkb:Mayawati gptkb:J._Jayalalithaa gptkb:C._Rajagopalachari gptkb:B._C._Roy gptkb:B._N._Rau gptkb:Uddhav_Thackeray gptkb:Satyendra_Prasanna_Sinha gptkb:Sir_Surendranath_Banerjee gptkb:S._R._Das Jawaharlal Nehru Arvind Kejriwal Babu Jagjivan Ram K. Chandrashekar Rao B. S. Yediyurappa Ram Vilas Paswan Biharilal Dutta
gptkbp:numberOfMembers	Up to 60 members
gptkbp:partOf	Bengal
gptkbp:reform	Government of India Act 1935 Government of India Act 1919
gptkbp:replacedBy	gptkb:West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly
gptkbp:role	Legislative body
gptkbp:servedIn	gptkb:British_India
gptkbp:successor	gptkb:West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly
gptkbp:type	Upper house
gptkbp:voterTurnout	Indirect elections