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British Rule in Bengal. University Press, Cambridge, 1987. historical themes and debates surrounding the question of establishment of British rule in eastern India.
The following article is an attempt to contribute to an understanding of sovereignty in late eighteenth-century Britain and British India by examining the role of the King in his sovereign authorization of the East India Company.
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(C) The Bengal Presidency was the largest among all the presidencies in the British India. While other two Presidencies, Madras and Bombay, remained geographically unchanged during the British period, the Bengal Presidency was subjected to repeated divisions. The state of Assam was first to go out in 1866, to
The partition of the Bengal Presidency of British India between its majority Hindu west and its mostly Muslim east had first been proposed by colonial officials in 1903. Initially, Bengali-speaking leaders in both areas – and of both religions – denounced the proposal.
The British Raj: Colonial rule in South Asia. Dwaipayan Sen. Description: (Offered as HIST 377 [AS/TE] and ASLC 377) This course examines the rise, establishment, and decline of British colonialism in India. Originating with the profound transitions underway in the mid-eighteenth century, the colonial state extended its reach over much of the ...
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Introduction. Power and Preachers comprises 6 diverse primary source collections which detail the political, economic, and spiritual realities of British colonial rule in India. The featured collections include records from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, from the establishment of the East India Company and the India Act to the emergence of ...
