The Bengal government wants to know the city better. A team of experts and engineers from the land and land reforms department is ready to embark on an exhaustive exercise to prepare a plot-wise map ...

Bengal was a vast province, and the British believed that its division into two smaller provinces, East Bengal and Assam, and West Bengal, would lead to better governance and more effective control.

75 years after Partition: These maps show how the British split India The hastily drawn border, known as the Radcliffe Line, attempted to carve out two nations along religious lines—but sparked ...

History revisited Why did British prime minister Attlee think Bengal was going to be an independent country in 1947? It is little known, but in 1947, along with India and Pakistan, there almost ...

Kolkata/London: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee invited British businesses to invest in the state in areas such as automation, engineering and artificial intelligence.

East India Company British involvement in India during the 18th century can be divided into two phases, one ending and the other beginning at mid-century.

Census of India, 1901. Volume VI, The lower provinces of Bengal and their feudatories ...

Like North India’s Muslims, Hindus in Bengal were wary of the British exiting, leaving them a minority. Since 1937, ever since democratic government had been introduced in the provinces of British ...

There might be so many myth regarding who created first map of India, here we have elaborated all the details related to Origin of first map of India.

On the 75th anniversary of the end of colonial rule, photos document the British Empire's lasting imprint on the part of India that is now Bangladesh.

Meanwhile, East Bengal, became East Pakistan and then Bangladesh after the province of Bengal became the second to be bifurcated at Partition. East Bengal birthed the Muslim League, the political ...

Independence Day 2022: As we all know, the British, when it came to their decision-making, have been extremely strategic and passive.