Bengal Presidency (British era)

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Bengal_Presidency_(British_era)

GPTKB entity

Statements (73)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:district
gptkbp:abolished	1947
gptkbp:area	over 500,000 sq km (at its largest extent)
gptkbp:capital	gptkb:Calcutta
gptkbp:country	gptkb:British_India
gptkbp:currency	gptkb:Indian_rupee
gptkbp:established	1765
gptkbp:governedBy	gptkb:Governor_of_Bengal
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Bengal Presidency (British era)
gptkbp:language	gptkb:Bengali gptkb:Hindi gptkb:Urdu gptkb:Oriya English Assamese
gptkbp:notableCity	gptkb:Calcutta gptkb:Chittagong gptkb:Dhaka gptkb:Patna gptkb:Dacca gptkb:Cuttack gptkb:Rangoon
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Reunification_of_Bengal_(1911) gptkb:Partition_of_Bengal_(1905)
gptkbp:notableLeader	gptkb:Sir_Frederick_Burrows gptkb:Sir_John_Anderson gptkb:Sir_Richard_Casey gptkb:Sir_William_Grey gptkb:Lord_Curzon gptkb:Sir_John_Woodburn gptkb:Lord_Cornwallis gptkb:Sir_Richard_Temple gptkb:Sir_Cecil_Beadon gptkb:Warren_Hastings gptkb:Sir_Alexander_Mackenzie gptkb:Lord_Wellesley gptkb:Sir_Ashley_Eden gptkb:Sir_Charles_Elliott gptkb:Sir_George_Campbell gptkb:Sir_John_Shore gptkb:Sir_Hugh_Dow gptkb:Sir_Andrew_Fraser gptkb:Sir_James_Bourdillon gptkb:Sir_John_Herbert gptkb:Sir_Henry_Waterfield gptkb:Sir_Steuart_Bayley
gptkbp:partOf	gptkb:British_Empire
gptkbp:population	over 70 million (early 20th century)
gptkbp:predecessor	gptkb:Bengal_Subah
gptkbp:region	gptkb:Meghalaya gptkb:Sylhet gptkb:Chittagong_Hill_Tracts gptkb:Arakan gptkb:Bengal gptkb:Andaman_and_Nicobar_Islands gptkb:Assam gptkb:Bihar gptkb:Jharkhand gptkb:Manipur gptkb:Mizoram gptkb:Nagaland gptkb:Sikkim gptkb:Tripura gptkb:Orissa gptkb:Burma_(till_1937) parts of Uttar Pradesh
gptkbp:successor	gptkb:Assam gptkb:Bihar gptkb:West_Bengal gptkb:Orissa gptkb:East_Bengal
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Bikrampur,_Bengal_Presidency,_British_India
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7