Lethbridge, An Easy Introduction to the History and Geography of Bengal (1874),į.J. of the Portuguese, GBĪnon., Historical and Ecclesiastical Sketches of Bengal, from the Earliest Settlement until the Virtual Conquest of that Country by the English in 1757, 1831, GBĮ. Guerreiro, Indianische Relation was sich in den Königreichen Pegu, Bengala, Bissnaga und etlich andern Ländern der gegen Auffgang gelegenen Indien von 1604 und etlich folgenden Jahren. Maffei, Le istorie dell' Indie Orientali,į. Martin, The History, Antiquities, Topography, and Statistics of Eastern India, 1838, GB Imperial Gazetteer of India 1909-1931, DSAL Balfour, The Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, commercial, industrial, and scientific products of the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms, useful arts and manufactures (1885), vol.1,īanglapedia, National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh Indira Gandhi National Centre for the ArtsĮ.G. International Association of Historians of Asia (IAHA) Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland Playne et al., Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa : their History, People, Commerce, and Industrial Resources (1917), Backhouse Eastwick, Handbook of the Bengal Presidency (1882), Wood, A Short Geography of Bengal 1895, IAĮ. In the course of the three Indo-Pakistani Wars, Hindu refugees left Bengal to settle in adjacent regions of India, while Muslim refugeesįled from adjacent regions in India into Bangladesh. In 1971 East Pakistan seceded from Pakistan to form independent Bangladesh. Bengal was split into West Bengal, which became a state within the Union (since 1950 : Republic) of India, and East Bengal, which together with the hitherto Assamese Sylhet District became East Pakistan. In 1943, Bengal experienced a major famine. In 1913 Rabindranath Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The measure was widely opposed, and in 1911 the status quo ante was restored. In order to create provinces of roughly similar size and population, the British authorities in 1905 split Bengal her assets in India were taken over by the British crown. The Sepoy Rebellion 1857-1858 caused the bankrupcy of the E.I.C. The University of Calcutta and contributed to the Bengal Renaissance. As the E.I.C.īanned missionary activity, English missionary William Carey established the Danish enclave of Serampore as the center of Indic studies it grew into In the first decades,īritish rule met resistance around 1770 Bengal experienced a major famine. Rule the Punjab, Hindustan (the Gangetic plain) and Assam were, as Bengal Presidency, administrated from Fort William (= Calcutta). In 1757-1765, the East India Company acquired Bengal (with Bihar and Orissa). In 1717, the Nawab of Bengal was elevated from Mughal vassall to sovereign prince. From 590 to 626 CE, the Gauda Dynastyīengal was Buddhist Kingdom under the Pala Dynasty.īengal was Hindu Kingdom under the Sena Dynasty.īengal was Hindu Kingdom under the Deva Dynasty.īengal was an independent Muslim Sultanate.īengal was a province of the Mughal Empire. 200 BCE) dispatched to South East Asia may well have sailed from Bengali ports. Temporarily, Bengal was under the Gupta Dynasty the Buddhist missionaries Ashoka (c. At the time of Alexander the Great (326 BCE), the Kingdom of Gangaridai is ascribed similar characteristics. Vanga (c.500 BCE) is believed to have been an early coastal kingdom engaged in seafaring and trade. have been found.Įarly Indian oral literature mentions Bengal. Literature on the History of Southeast Asia
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