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	Bengal - LoveToKnow 1911
		Proceeding west, the sub-province of Bengal proper stretches to the banks of the Ganges and inland from the seaboard to the Himalayas.
		The other principal rivers in Bengal are the Sone, Gogra, Gandak, Kusi, Tista; the Hugh, formed by the junction of the Bhagirathi and Jalangi, and farther to the west, the Damodar and Rupnarayan; and in the south-west, the Mahanadi or great river of Orissa.
		In Bengal the rising began at Barrackpore, was communicated to Dacca in Eastern Bengal, and for a time raged in Behar, producing the memorable defence of the billiard-room at Arrah by a handful of civilians and Sikhs - one of the most splendid pieces of gallantry in the history of the British arms.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Bengal (4847 words)

	Calcutta - LoveToKnow 1911
		Belvedere House, the official residence of the lieutenant-governor of Bengal, is situated close to the botanical gardens in Alipur, the southern suburb of Calcutta.
		The docks lie outside Calcutta, at Kidderpur, on the south; and at Alipur are the zoological gardens, the residence of the lieutenant-governor of Bengal, cantonments for a native infantry regiment, the central gaol and a government reformatory.
		It was not until 1854 that a separate head was appointed for Bengal, who, under the style of lieutenant-governor, exercises the same powers in civil matters as those vested in the governors in council of Madras or Bombay, although subject to closer supervision by the supreme government.
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	Eastern Bengal and Assam - LoveToKnow 1911
		EASTERN BENGAL AND Assam, a province of British India, which was constituted out of Assam and the eastern portion of Bengal on the 16th of October 1905.
		It is bounded on the N. by Bhutan, on the W. by Burma, on the S. by Burma and the Bay of Bengal, and on the E. by Bengal.
		This proposal was bitterly opposed by the Hindus of Bengal on the ground that it would destroy the unity of the Bengali race; and their agitation was associated with the Swadeshi (own country) movement for the boycott of British goods.
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	Early 1700s. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
		The nawab (Siraj-ud-Daulah) of the Bengal region captured Calcutta (June 20) and imprisoned unescaped residents in a small storeroom in the fort (later called the Black Hole), where over a hundred perished from suffocation, wounds, and the heat.
		Victory at Baksar over forces of the deposed nawab of Bengal, the nawab of Avadh, and the titular Mughal emperor gave the British uncontested control in Bengal and Bihar, awarded in the form of the diwani of Bengal (1756–67).
		As governor of Bengal, Warren Hastings (1732–1818) initiated reforms, including simplification of the revenue system and improved coinage, government control of salt and opium manufacture, reduction of dacoity (robbery), and study of Muslim and Hindu law (Calcutta Madrasa, 1781).
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	Bengal Presidency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bengal Presidency, known officially as the Presidency of Fort William, was a region of British India, comprising at its height modern Bangladesh, and the provinces of Bengal, Bihar, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab in India and Pakistan.
		The Presidency of Bengal, in contradistinction to those of Madras and Bombay, eventually included all the British territories North of the Central Provinces (Madhya Pradesh), from the mouths of the Ganges and Brahmaputra to the Himalayas and the Punjab.
		The name "Bengal" is derived from Sanskrit "Vanga," and, strictly speaking, applies to the country stretching southwards from Bhagalpur to the sea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bengal_Presidency (1452 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: States of India
		Most of the princely states were under the authority of a British political agent responsible to the governor of a province, but the four largest princely states, Hyderabad, Baroda, Mysore, and Jammu and Kashmir, were directly under the authority of the Governor-General of India.
		The nine Part A states were Assam, West Bengal, Bihar, Bombay, Madhya Pradesh (formerly Central Provinces and Berar), Madras, Orissa, Punjab, and Uttar Pradesh (formerly United Provinces).
		The Andaman and Nicobar Islands was a territory, ruled by a governor appointed by the Indian president.
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	Raj Bhavan (West Bengal) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thereafter, the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, who had hitherto resided in Belvedere House, was upgraded to a full Governor and transferred to Government House.
		Now, it serves as the residence of the Governor of the Indian state of West Bengal, and is referred to by its Hindi name ("Raj Bhavan").
		Occasional public meetings by the Governor are held in the magnificent marble hall in the ground floor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Raj_Bhavan_(West_Bengal) (524 words)

	West bengal:: Travel to West bengal:: West bengal Journey :: West bengal Travel Guide
		Neighbouring regions are Nepal to the northwest, Sikkim and Bhutan to the north, Assam to the northeast, Bangladesh to the east, the Bay of Bengal to the south, Orissa to the southwest and Jharkhand and Bihar to the west.
		Bengal was ruled by the Buddhist Pala dynasty from 750 to 1161.
		West Bengal is long and narrow, running from the delta of the Ganges river system in the Bay of Bengal, to the south, up through the Ganges plain, to the heights of the Himalaya and Darjeeling in the north.
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	Lord Curzon and the Partition of Bengal by Kumud Biswas
		Bengal was a classic case where an administrative unit initially consisting of a few districts had grown over the years into a province too large to be effectively administered by a Lt. Governor.
		Moreover, the tagging of one portion of Bengal to Bihar and Orissa and the rest to Assam politically relegated the position of the Bengalis in both the new provinces from one of predominance to insignificance.
		The partition of Bengal had to be revoked and Curzon had to leave this country in shame to spend a considerable part of his political career in the wilderness.
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	Bangladesh - ISLAMIZATION OF BENGAL, 1202-1757 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Bengal was loosely associated with the Delhi Sultanate, established in 1206, and paid a tribute in war elephants in order to maintain autonomy.
		Bengal remained a Mughal province until the beginning of the decline of the Mughal Empire in the eighteenth century.
		Bengal was treated as the "breadbasket of India" and, as the richest province in the empire, was drained of its resources to maintain the Mughal army.
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	Warren Hastings
		Hastings allied with the governor in disputes that split the council about the extent to which the nawab should be permitted to regulate the private trade of British merchants.
		As governor of Bengal, Hastings had not only to direct the internal administration of a huge province, but he had to conduct complex diplomacy with Indian states and on occasions with other European powers.
		Authority in Bengal was to be concentrated in a governor general and a new Supreme Council of five.
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	Belvedere Estate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its is located near the Alipore Zoological Gardens, in Calcutta (Kolkata), capital of the state of West Bengal in India.
		Belvedere House was the former Viceregal Palace for the Viceroy of India and later the Governor of Bengal.
		It is believed that the roots of Belvedere House lie in the late 1760s from approximately the time when Mir Jafar Ali Khan, the Nawab of the province of Bengal was compelled by the British East India Company to abdicate his throne at Murshidabad to Qasim Khan in 1760.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Belvedere_Estate (511 words)

	BANGLAPEDIA: Murshid Quli Khan
		Murshid Quli Khan began his career in Bengal as the provincial diwan and ended as the nazim or governor of Bengal and Orissa, diwan of Bihar and faujdar of several districts, occupying all posts at the same time in the early 18th century.
		When aurangzeb was looking for an honest and efficient diwan for Bengal, his choice fell on this young man. He was transferred in 1701 to Bengal as diwan and was honoured with the title of Kartalab Khan.
		Bengal was at that time being governed by absentee governors through their deputies.
	www.banglapedia.org /HT/M_0406.HTM (0 words)

	Muslim Conquest Of Bengal
		vikramapura in east bengal; which remained almost entirely free of muslim control till the last decade of the 13th century, as also was south bengal.
		After that, Bengal went back to Delhi sultanate, but the governor is not known; but in 656 A.H. (about 1258 A.D.) Jalal-ud-din Masud Jani Shah is reappointed governor of Bengal, but he was soon replaced by Ijj-ud-din Balban Yujbaki.
		Tughril was finally found and killed, and Balban killed all his family and many of his followers publicly in lakhnauti (the ones he took to Delhi to kill in front of their relatives got spared by the request of a kazi).
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	Politics
		The Raj Bhavan is the official residence of the Governor of West Bengal,the executive head of the state.
		The state of West Bengal experienced some turbulent situations during the seventies and slowly improved during the late eighties when the political situation in the state stabilized.
		Today Kolkata, as the capital of West Bengal, is one of the few remaining strongholds of the left wing parties of India.
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	Indian Governor-Generals
		Among the Indian Governor Generals, William Cavendish-Bentinck was one of the important Governor General of India (from 1828-1835) Born on 14 September 1774, Lord William Cavendish Bentinck first joined as governor of Madras in 1803 and was appointed the Governor General of Bengal taking the charge in 1828.
		Henry Hardinge was the governor general of India from 1844 to 1847 and many social and educational reforms took place during his tenure.
		Dalhousie became the governor general of India on 12th January 1848; in fact he took charge of a dual office of the Governor of Bengal also.
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	Muslim Conquest Of Bengal
		vikramapura in east bengal; which remained almost entirely free of muslim control till the last decade of the 13th century, as also was south bengal.
		After that, Bengal went back to Delhi sultanate, but the governor is not known; but in 656 A.H. (about 1258 A.D.) Jalal-ud-din Masud Jani Shah is reappointed governor of Bengal, but he was soon replaced by Ijj-ud-din Balban Yujbaki.
		In 1271, delhi sultan Ghias-ud-Din Balban ulugh khân (1266-1286) appointed Amin Khan and Tughril Khan as the governor of Bengal and his assistant respectively.
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		Governor of West Bengal specifically mentioned that the Left Front Government's consistent efforts to ensure improvement in the investment scenario have started yielding positive results.
		Governor said, "Availability of skilled human resources at competitive costs, easy access to a number of natural resources, a comfortable power position, a stable as well as enabling environment for business activity, a vast hinterland, a relatively developed infrastructure are some of the advantages for industry in West Bengal.
		On the tourism scenario of West Bengal Governor said, since the announcement of the West Bengal Tourism Policy, 1996, more than forty applications for allotment of land have been received from the private sector and three investors have already been allotted land in Calcutta for construction of five-star deluxe hotels.
	www.ganashakti.com /old/1999/990315/bengal.htm (1271 words)

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		But when a Governor presumes to remove from their situations those persons whom the public authority and sanction of the Company have appointed, and obtrudes upon them by violence other persons, superseding the orders of his masters, he becomes doubly responsible for their conduct.
		Governors, we know very well, cannot with their own hands be continually receiving bribes,--for then they must have as many hands as one of the idols in an Indian temple, in order to receive all the bribes which a Governor-General may receive,--but they have them vicariously.
		They will say, "The Governor has been doing a meritorious action, extorting bribes for our benefit, and you have the impudence to think of prosecuting him." So that the moment the bribe is detected, it is instantly turned into a merit: and we shall prove that this is the case with Mr.
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	India Heritage :: History :: History of Bengal
		Jaidev (12th century AD), the famous poet of Bengal, was one of the Pancharatnas (literally 5 gems) in the court of Laxmansena.
		The rulers of Bengal were often subjugated by various rulers and dynasties of Delhi and northern India.
		This was the beginning of a new phase in Bengal's history, marking the advent of independence from the authority and control of Delhi rulers.
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	Clive, Robert, Baron Clive of Plassey - ninemsn Encarta
		Clive, Robert, Baron Clive of Plassey (1725-1774), British governor of Bengal, who was one of the founders of British rule in India.
		In June of that year, the Indian leader Siraj-ud-Dawlah, who was the nawab of Bengal and viceroy of the region's Mughal sovereigns, captured Calcutta from the British.
		He ended the disorder and corruption that had developed while he was away, restored discipline to the armed forces, and reformed the civil service and the running of the Company itself.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560186/Clive_Robert_Baron_Clive_of_Plassey.html (635 words)

	Windows on Asia
		With the collapse of the Mauryan Empire, Eastern Bengal became the independent kingdom of Samatata, which was a tributary state of the Gupta Empire which ruled India from the 4th to the 6th centuries.
		Bengal was conquered by the forces of the Mughal Emperor, Akbar the Great, in 1576 and remained a Mughal province until the destruction of the empire.
		In 1757, the governor of Bengal, Siraj ud Daulah, attacked the British at Plassey; he was defeated by Robert Clive of the East India Company.
	www.isp.msu.edu /asianStudies/wbwoa/southasia/Bangladesh/history.html (2750 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Clive, Robert, Baron Clive of Plassey (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Clive's brilliant capture of Arcot (1751) and the relief of the siege of Trichinopoly (1752) thwarted Dupleix, who had been on the verge of achieving French hegemony in S India.
		Bengal thus passed under effective British control, and Clive became the first governor.
		As governor of Bengal again from 1765 to 1767, Clive greatly reduced corruption and inefficiency in a formerly disordered administration and reached a settlement with the states of Bihar and Orissa.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c/clive-ro.asp (346 words)

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		The governor of Bengal Presidency later became the Governor-General of India.
		The provinces were enlarged by wars of conquest, and during the mid-19th century by the doctrine of lapse, under which the Governor-General seized states from native rulers who died without a direct male heir.
		North-Western Provinces: established in 1835 from portions of Bengal Presidency; later renamed the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh.
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	West Bengal Legislative Assembly
		The history of the West Bengal Legislature dates back to 18 January 1862 when under the Indian Councils Act of 1861, a 12 Member Legislative Council for Bengal was established by the Governor-General of India with the Lt.Governor of Bengal and some nominated members.
		The Bengal Legislative Council constituted under the Act of 1919 was formally inaugurated on 1 February 1921 by His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught.
		The West Bengal Legislative Assembly was constituted with 90 members representing the constituencies that fell within the area of West Bengal and two nominated members from Anglo-Indian community.
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	Bengal under the Mughals
		After the fall of the Karrani power in 1576, Bengal was under the mughal rule.
		On 19th December, 1578, Khan-i-jahan died and Muzaffar Khan became the governor of Bengal.
		Akbar's brother Mirza Hakim declared himself independent in Kabul, and Muzaffar Khan was defeated by rebels sympathetic to him, and Bengal and Bihar was declared to be his.
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	ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS IN WEST BENGAL - Legalised Voters?
		V. Rajeshwar former Chief of Intelligence Bureau and Governor of West Bengal in his two-part article (Statesman, April 6 and 9, 1990) on problem of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh observed, "it would not be an exaggeration to say that the problem of Bangladeshi influx in West Bengal is indeed serious".
		"In West Bengal, for instance, a situation prevails where 17% of the electorate in the border districts are infiltrators whose vote is fast emerging as the deciding factor in as many as 56 Assembly constituencies" (Pioneer dated October 6, 1992).
		People of the country in general and West Bengal in particular are having high hopes from the EC to ensure that the voters' list is also cleaned from the electoral virus of foreign voters.
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	nation (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Commenting on the episode, an angry Chief Minister, Jyoti Basu, told reporters at Dum Dum airport on the eve of his departure for London on Tuesday evening, that the barbaric Government of the BJP at the Centre was flouting the Constitution and canons of law.
		The Left Front Chairman, Sailen Dasgupta commenting on the removal of the Governor said that the BJP's caretaker government at the Centre was flouting democratic norms one after another, the latest being one related to the removal of the State's Governor Mr A.R. Kidwai.
		Again he was appointed Governor of Bihar in 1993 and continued in the same post till Aprill 27 Thereafter he joined as Governor of West Bengal on April 27 last year.
	www.ganashakti.com /old/1999/990517/nation.htm (976 words)

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