Bengal's economy underwent a period of proto-industrialization during this period. Subsequently, the region was conquered by the British East India Company after the Battle of Plassey in 1757 and became the Bengal Presidency of the British Raj.
The East India Company increased agriculture tax rates from 10% to up to 50%, which caused multiple famines such as the Great Bengal famine of 1770 which caused the death of 10 million Bengalis and the Bengal famine of 1943 which killed millions. Bengal played a major role in the Indian independence movement, in which revolutionary groups were dominant.
The East India Company increased agriculture tax rates from 10% to up to 50%, which caused multiple famines such as the Great Bengal famine of 1770 which caused the death of 10 million Bengalis and the Bengal famine of 1943 which killed millions. Bengal played a major role in the Indian independence movement, in which revolutionary groups were dominant.
The United Kingdom Cabinet Mission of 1946 split the region between India and Pakistan, an action popularly known as the partition of Bengal (1947).
Subsequently, Pakistan ruled East Bengal which later became the independent nation of Bangladesh by the Bangladesh War of Independence in 1971. == Etymology == The name of Bengal is derived from the ancient kingdom of Vanga, the earliest records of which date back to the Mahabharata epic in the first millennium BCE.
In 1997, this region was declared endangered. West Bengal is on the eastern bottleneck of India, stretching from the Himalayas in the north to the Bay of Bengal in the south.
In 2011, the population of Bengal was estimated to be 250 million, making it one of the most densely populated regions in the world.
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