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- The Bengal Presidency emerged from trading posts established in the Bengal province during the reign of Emperor Jahangir in 1612.
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The Bengal Presidency emerged from trading posts established in the Bengal province during the reign of Emperor Jahangir in 1612. The East India Company (HEIC), a British monopoly with a Royal Charter, competed with other European companies to gain influence in Bengal.
By the mid-18th century, the three principal trading settlements including factories and forts, were then called the Madras Presidency (or the Presidency of Fort St. George), the Bombay Presidency, and the Bengal Presidency (or the Presidency of Fort William)—each administered by a governor.
The Bengal Presidency, at its greatest extent, stretched up to Punjab in the northwest, Assam in the northeast, and parts of Burma (now Myanmar) and the Strait of Malacca in the southeast.
A hotbed of the Indian independence movement through the early 20th century, Bengal was partitioned during India's independence in 1947 along religious lines into two separate entities: West Bengal—a state of India—and East Bengal—a part of the newly created Dominion of Pakistan that later became the independent nation of Bangladesh in 1971.
Aug 1, 2020 · A brief history of the extraordinary role of Bengal Presidency in shaping the destiny of modern India
The Bengal Presidency initially comprised the regions of east and west Bengal. A colonial region of British India, the Presidency comprised undivided Bengal (present day Bangladesh), the states of West Bengal, Assam, Bihar, Meghalaya, Orissa, and Tripura.
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On December 1699, the Company declared Bengal as a separate Presidency from that of Madras and named Sir Charles Eyre as its first president. In 1707, the East India Company again separated the governance of Bengal from Madras and named it as a Presidency.
