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 ...

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.

British India's united Bengal Province just before it was partitioned into West and East Bengal on August 17, 1947 | Creative Commons On December 28, Pakistan newspaper Dawn published a somewhat ...

There might be so many myth regarding who created first map of India, ... In 1757, in the Battle of Plessey, the British defeated the ruler of Bengal Siraj-Ud-Daula.

Bengal: The British Bridgehead, Eastern India, 1740-1828 in The New Cambridge History of India, (vol. II, 2) by P J Marshall (Cambridge, 1987) Top About the author ...

Haunting images revisit the railways that united Bengal—until India's Partition divided it. On the 75th anniversary of the end of colonial rule, photos document the British Empire's lasting ...