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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
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