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).

Bengal; its Chiefs, Agents, and Governors by Frederick Charles Danvers 1888 Archive.org
A Description of the Roads in Bengal and Bahar by James Rennell 1778 Google Books
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
- Volume 1, 1782-1793 with a Dissertation on Landed Property and Land Rights in Bengal at the End of the Eighteenth Century,Volume 2, 1794-1797, Volume 3, 1798-1801, Volume 4, 1802-1807 with an Index of all four volumes
Bradshaw's Hand-book to the Bengal Presidency, and Western Provinces of India 1860 Google Books
Handbook of the Bengal Presidency. With an account of Calcutta City by Edward E Eastwick, published by John Murray 1882 Archive.org
Bengal under the lieutenant-governors; being a narrative of the principal events and public measures during their periods of office, from 1854 to 1898 by Charles Edward Buckland 1901 Archive.org Volume 1, Volume 2
Annual Report on the Administration of the Bengal Presidency for ... 1860-61, 1861-62,1862-63, 1863-64 , 1864-65,1865-66, 1866-67, 1867-68 , 1868-69Google Books

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 ===Historical books online===
 *[http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalitschiefsa00danvrich#page/n5/mode/2up ''Bengal; its Chiefs, Agents, and Governors''] by Frederick Charles Danvers 1888 Archive.org
+*[http://books.google.com/books?id=bltFAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''A Description of the Roads in Bengal and Bahar] by James Rennell 1778 Google Books
 *''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]