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Sep 27, 2007 · In May 1769 fears that the Marathas and the French would join Mysore and that there might be a war involving Bengal as well sent India stock down by nearly twenty points in two days, 8 part of ‘an alarming and unparalleled fall of India stock within these few weeks’ that was said improbably to have wiped off £7 million ‘of property in that stock’. 9 The government was asked to provide ...
Feb 17, 2011 · The East India Company: A History by Philip Lawson (London, 1993) Bengal: The British Bridgehead, Eastern India, 1740-1828 in The New Cambridge History of India, (vol. II, 2) by P J Marshall ...
On this process, see Tirthankar Roy, An Economic History of Early Modern India (London: Routledge, 2013). 7. The standing army originated in the troops raised and maintained in Bengal, Bombay, and Madras, and known as the Presidency Armies. From the mid-18th century, British regiments were sent to fight in India.
Aden and Sindh were separated from the Bombay Presidency in the 1930s. Upon India’s independence, the Bombay Presidency was renamed Bombay state. In 1956, following the passage of India’s States Reorganization Act, Bombay state was dissolved, and its territory was absorbed into the new states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. The city of Bombay ...
Bombay was one of the few industrial centres of India where strong unions grew up, particularly company or enterprise based unions, often in foreign owned firms. [7] A key figure in the Bombay labour movement in the early 1950s, was George Fernandes. He was a central figure in the unionisation of sections of Bombay labour in the 1950s. [8]
The history of Bengal is intertwined with the history of the broader Indian subcontinent and the surrounding regions of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It includes modern-day Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal , Tripura and Assam 's Karimganj district , located in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent, at the apex of the Bay of Bengal and dominated by the fertile Ganges delta .
Mar 28, 2008 · Early in the eighteenth century the very diverse areas which now make up three states of contemporary India, West Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, together with present-day Bangladesh, were loosely welded together under a single Governor to form the eastern wing of the Mughal empire.
