Difference between revisions of "Bengal (Presidency)"

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An adminsitrative subdivision of British India. The Bengal Presidency covered the north and east of India and East Bengal (now called Bangladesh).

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 ===Historical books online===
+*''Bengal MS. Records. A Selected List of 14,136 Letters in the Board of Revenue, Calcutta 1782-1807'' by William Wilson Hunter 1894 Archive.org
+**[http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalmsrecords00revegoog#page/n7/mode/1up Volume 1, 1782-1793] with a [http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalmsrecords00revegoog#page/n13/mode/1up Dissertation on Landed Property and Land Rights in Bengal at the End of the Eighteenth Century],[http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalmsrecords01revegoog#page/n5/mode/1up Volume 2, 1794-1797], [http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalmsrecords025019mbp#page/n0/mode/2up Volume 3, 1798-1801], [http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalmsrecords00unkngoog#page/n5/mode/ Volume 4, 1802-1807] with an [http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalmsrecords00unkngoog#page/n327/mode/1up Index  of  all four volumes]
 *[http://www.archive.org/details/handbookbengalp00eastgoog ''Handbook of the Bengal Presidency. With an account of Calcutta City'']  by Edward E Eastwick, published by John Murray 1882 Archive.org
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