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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once Upon A time in British India Bengal Province An old Maulavi Muslim Priest wanted to start a primary school for village boys and A Kindhearted Zamindar Land Lord ...

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 ...

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 ...

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West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday announced the renaming of the British-era 'Short Street' in central Kolkata after the 16th-century Catholic missionary St Francis Xavier.