Bengal (Presidency)

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

See Presidencies in the Beginners' Guide

External Links

Bengal Presidency 1633-1757 Google Books
Bengal Presidency Wikipedia

=Historical books online

• Bengal; its Chiefs, Agents, and Governors by Frederick Charles Danvers 1888 Archive.org
• 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
• Handbook of the Bengal Presidency. With an account of Calcutta City by Edward E Eastwick, published by John Murray 1882 Archive.org