Bihar | Bangladesh |
Until 1765, Bengal was part of the domains of the Nawab of Awadh (Oudh), nominally a
vassall of the Mughal Emperor. In 1765 the latter two ceded Bengal, Bihar and Orissa
to the E.I.C. which formed these territories into the Bengal Presidency.
In 1905 the Province of East Bengal and Assam was carved out of Bengal Presidency. This
partition of Bengal met strong opposition. In 1912 the combined territory of Bengal Presidency and East Bengal and
Assam was reorganized in three provinces, Assam, Bengal,
and the third being Bihar and Orissa. When British India was released into independence in 1947, the Province of Bengal was torn into two parts, East Bengal (with Sylhet District, hitherto part of Assam) which joined Pakistan as East Pakistan, and West Bengal, which joined the Republic of India. West Bengal since 1971 . West Bengal 1947-1971 Bengal (until 1947) . British India Historical Atlas, British India, India Page |
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DIRECTORY OF INTERNET SOURCES . . . EXTERNAL FILES |
Country Profiles | Current |
from India Net Zone;
from Wikipedia;
from Webindia 123 Government of West Bengal |
Historic |
Links | General |
Category ; West Bengal, from Wikipedia |
on History |
Category : History of West Bengal, from Wikipedia |
Organizations |
Historical Dictionary |
Banglapedia, National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh Gorkhapedia |
Timelines |
Accounts of History |
History of West Bengal, from Webindia 123,
from Wikipedia,
from Kamat's Potpourri |
Politics |
West Bengal Politics News, from My West Bengal Politics in West Bengal, from A Glance into Indian Politics Political Economy of Land Reforms in West Bengal, 1978-1998, by P. Bardhan and D. Mookherjee Article Government of West Bengal, from Wikipedia History of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly |
Military |
Economy & Finances |
The Economy of West Bengal, from Webindia 123,
from Economy Watch Political Economy of Land Reforms in West Bengal, 1978-1998, by P. Bardhan and D. Mookherjee West Bengal Crafts, from India Crafts |
Social History |
Anne Hardgrove, Community and Public Culture. The Marwaris in Calcutta, c. 1897-1997,
diss. Columbia UP n.d. |
Ethnography |
Tribes of West Bengal, from India Net Zone, subchapters Category : Tribes of West Bengal, from Wikipedia People of West Bengal, from Webindia 123 |
Religion |
Religion in West Bengal, from Webindia 123 Archdiocese of Calcutta, from Catholic Hierarchy St. Mary's JSO Church, Calcutta, from Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese Article Bishop of Calcutta (Anglican), from Wikipedia Article Missionaries of Charity, from Wikipedia Temples of West Bengal, from India Net Zone |
History of Regions |
Articles : Gorkhaland,
Cooch Behar District, from Wikipedia |
Local History |
History of Kolkata (Calcutta), from Wikipedia,
from Calcutta Web History of Darjeeling, from Wikipedia History of Chandannagar (Chandernagore), from Wikipedia History of Bardhaman (Burdwan), from Wikipedia Article Serampore, from Wikipedia |
Institutions |
History, of University of Calcutta History, of West Bengal University of Technology |
Culture |
Biographies |
Others |
India Environment Portal : West Bengal Terrestrial Ecoregions : Indo-Malayan, from WWF; scroll down for Lower Gangetic Plains Moist Deciduous Forests, Sunderbans Mangroves, Sunderbans Freshwater Swamp Mangroves, Himalayan Subtropical Broadleaf Forest |
DIRECTORY OF INTERNET SOURCES . . . EXTERNALLY POSTED DOCUMENTS |
Historical Data | Lists of Statesmen |
from World Statesmen (B. Cahoon), scroll down List of Governors of West Bengal, from Wikipedia |
Population Figures |
Historical Population Statistics : India, by State (Province), from Population Statistics,
by J. Lahmeyer Population of Cities : India, West Bengal, from City Population |
Election Results |
from Psephos (since 2001) Constituencies : West Bengal, from Indian Elections Article Assembly Election Results of West Bengal (1951, 1957), from Wikipedia Assembly Elections Bengal 2001, from rediff West Bengal Election Watch, has historic election results India Election Database, results since 1989 Election Database, from Election Commission of India, results since 1977 Statistical Reports of State Elections, from Election Commission of India |
Documents | Historical Newspapers |
The History of Bangla (West Bengal), from World History
Archives West Bengal Article Archive, from Keepmedia |
Modern Newspapers |
links from IPL West Bengal News, from My West Bengal |
Newsreels |
British Pathe Wochenschau-Archiv (in German) Archief Beeld en Geluid : Polygoon (in Dutch) |
Image Databanks |
Wikimedia Commons Photos of West Bengal, by Peter Langer |
Archival Deposits |
Search National Archives (UK) for West Bengal |
Constitutions, Laws |
Document Collections |
Historical Maps |
Maps of West Bengal, from Maps of India,
from Maps-India Map : Calcutta 1945, posted by PCL, UTexas |
Tour Guides, Travelogues |
Residence Memoirs |
Institutions | Archives |
West Bengal State Archives, from Archives Wiki |
Musea |
Carey Museum, from West Bengal Tourism |
Monuments |
Alphabetical List of Monuments - West Bengal, from
Archaeological Survey of India Lighthouses of India : West Bengal, Orissa and Andhra Pradesh West Bengal Temples, from Indian Temples Portal Category : Forts in West Bengal, from Wikipedia |
Libraries |
Official Symbols | Flags, Coats of Arms |
no flag found for West Bengal ;
Flag of Gorkhaland, from FOTW (separatist movement in northern W. Bengal) |
PRINTED REFERENCE |
Bibliographies | general |
Datenbasis Internationale Beziehungen und Länderkunde
(Data Base on International Relations and Country Studies) (site in German, most titles listed in English;
numerous entries; publications mostly since 1970) RHS Bibliography UK National Archive Online Library ISBN Database |
on West Bengal |
Indcat, Online Uinion Catalogue of Indian Universities, from INFLIBNET, click Union Database Specialized Bibliography on the Darjeeling Hills, from ITTM Books on Genocide and Related Topics in Bengali, from Prevent Genocide D. Ludden, Angrarian Bibliography of Bengal and Bangladesh (c.1990) Annotated Bibliography : Bengal Partition, by Rila Mukherjee Bibliography, from Bangladesh Tornadoes |
Online Libraries | general |
Project Gutenberg, Online Catalogue, keywords Ceylon Internet Archive e-corpus |
on India |
Digital Library of India History of India Digital Library |
Online Journals |
Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh South Asia Journals, from ELIN-NIAS; Sri Lanka Journals, from ELIN-NIAS Asia Insights, from NIAS, 2002- |
General Accounts |
Partha Chatterjee, The Present History of West Bengal, Oxford : UP 1998 [G] |
Specific Topics |
Historical Atlasses |
C. Collin Davies, An Historical Atlas of the Indian Peninsula, Oxford : UP, 2nd edition, 1959 [G] Historical and Cultural Maps, National Atlas of India Vol.8, published by National Atlas & Thematic Mapping Organisation, Calcutta 1983, edited by G.K . Dutt, S.K. Biswas [G] J.E. Schwartzberg, A Historical Atlas of South Asia, Chicago : UP 1978 [G] |
Statistical Data |
IHS : B.R. Mitchell, International Historical Statistics. Africa, Asia & Oceania 1750-2000, London : Palgrave 2003 [G] |
Yearbooks |
Article Bengal, in : Britannica Book of the Year 1913 p. 614 (on events of 1912) [G] Articles : India and Dependencies : Bengal Presidency, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1928 pp.149-151 (data of 1926-1928); India and Dependencies : Coorg, ibid. p.157 ; India and Dependencies : Bengal States, ibid. p.165 [G] Article : India : West Bengal, in : Statesman's Yearbook 1970-1971 pp.380-382, 1975-1976 pp.388-390, 1976-1977 pp.389-391, 1978-1979 pp.658-660, 1979-1980 pp.663-665, 1980-1981 pp.661-663, 1981-1982 pp.664-666, 1983-1984 pp.667-669, 1984-1985 pp.669-671, 1985-1986 pp.672-674, 1986-1987 pp.674-676, 1987-1988 pp.681-683, 1988-1989 pp.684-686, 1989-1990 pp.691-693, 1990-1991 pp.692-694, 1991-1992 pp.690-692, 1992-1993 pp.763-766, 1993-1994 pp.762-765, 1994-1995 pp.755-757, 1995-1996 pp.751-754, 1996-1997 pp.694-696, 1997-1998 pp.699-701, 1998-1999 pp.751-753, 2000 pp.862-865, 2001 pp.839-841, 2002 pp.874-877, 2003 pp.877-880, 2004 pp.881-884, 2005 pp.883-886, 2006 pp.880-882 [G] |