Her grandfather was the governor of Bengal, in British India, during the run-up ... the famine because he was the chief executive of the province of Bengal at that time". One of the policies ...

In 1905 Lord Curzon, the British monarch’s representative in India, the Viceroy, was fearful of the influence of the INC, especially in Bengal, so he split the province into different states.

The devastating story of the Bengal Famine of 1943 in British India, where at least three million people died, told for the first time by the eyewitnesses to it. The causes of the famine are many ...

Following the protest Rabindranath Tagore led against division of the Bengal province by the British government in 1905, ...

Its wealth rivalled that of the British State ... took control of India’s richest province. Led by Robert Clive, the Company defeated the ruler of Bengal, and installed a replacement of their ...

The plan of the British Raj was to separate the largely ... at the same time upsetting the Permanent Settlement as the new province of East Bengal would require new taxes. Civil servants like ...

He wanted the division of states and provinces after the British departed. The Hindu Mahasabha wanted a new West Bengal province with a Hindu majority. Only a few Congress leaders, such as Sarat ...